installing on SLES 10sp3

[Lyle Giese]

I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server.

When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and 
write any of the zone files it downloaded.

named -c /etc/named.conf   (yes I am running this a root)

The error is
Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: transfer of 
'103.0.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/chase' from 209.172.152.3#53: Transfer 
completed: 1 messages, 261 records, 5636 bytes, 0.116 secs (48586 bytes/sec)
Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: zone 
103.0.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/chase: sending notifies (serial 2010081601)
Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: dumping master file: 
tmp-QJcEgeBZ3h: open: permission denied

There is never a path mentioned in the permission denied message and the 
zone files are not written out to disk.

I have set a directory in the options section:

Options {
    directory "/etc/named";
};

When I run named-checkconf against named.conf, it is always erroring out 
against this line(directory line), no matter what I put there or 
different syntax I insert.  And yes the directory really does exist.

named.conf: line 17: change directory to: '/etc/named' failed: file not 
found

named.conf:line 17: parse failed

What 'file' is named-checkconf looking for? Or is this a bogus error 
message?  Am I missing something else?  I am starting named as root, but 
appear to be getting permission issues.  It just does not make any sense 
right now.


Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.