9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade

Jim McAtee jmcatee at mediaodyssey.com
Wed Sep 28 22:51:30 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.isc.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: 9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade


> It shouldn't be necessary to uninstall. You can just install over
> the old one. The installer was designed to take care of that, unless 
> there's an issue that I forgot about.


I'm running into a snag.  I had been running 9.2.3 under the Local System 
account.  Installing 9.3.1, it created a local user account 'named' and I 
set a password.  Starting up, BIND threw the following error:

28-Sep-2005 16:40:00.888 general: critical: couldn't open pid file 
'C:\WINNT\System32\dns\etc\named.pid': File exists
28-Sep-2005 16:40:00.888 general: critical: exiting (due to early fatal 
error)

I deleted the named.pid file, then received this one:

28-Sep-2005 16:40:12.279 general: critical: couldn't open pid file 
'C:\WINNT\System32\dns\etc\named.pid': Permission denied
28-Sep-2005 16:40:12.279 general: critical: exiting (due to early fatal 
error)

Should the installer have set the necessary permissions, or is this left 
to the user?  I installed the new version while logged in under a domain 
admininstrator account. 



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