I: Problem w startup (disperatly)

[Ronan Flood]

"Mauro" <conosciani.m at adrtel.it> wrote:

> The strange think is that the directory exists and the owner is
> named……..What Can I do ?????

> Feb 24 16:57:52 netservicea named[4262]: couldn't open pid file
> '/usr/local/dns/var/run': Operation not supported

What does "ls -l /usr/local/dns/var/run" show?

Do you maybe have

  pid-file "/usr/local/dns/var/run";

in your named.conf?  If so, try changing it to

  pid-file "/usr/local/dns/var/run/named.pid";


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                      Ronan Flood <R.Flood at noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
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