Starting BIND 9

[Adam Lang]

You guys were correct, thanks.  It wasn't running as root because
/home/named was not 755.

Once I changed the options to have named.pid inside /home/named, -u named
worked fine.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph S D Yao" <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang at rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Starting BIND 9


> 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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