Starting BIND 9

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Thu May 24 22:03:14 UTC 2001


On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:50:14PM -0400, Adam Lang wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'm encountering several permission errors when trying to start BIND 9
> and I would like some pointers on the better way to do this.
> 
> named.conf and rndc.conf are in /etc.
> 
> in named.conf, I have the directory as /home/named (all files inside it are
> owned by named:named)
> 
> I tried named and it bombed with the error of:
> change directory to '/home/named' failed: permission denied
> 
> So, i tried named -u named and the above worked but then I bomb on this:
> couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
> 
> I don't want to mes with file permissions of that directory, so I'm not
> quite sure what to do.

Make sure that /home/named is mode 755.  What is it now?

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