/run/named permission denied

[Colin Vidal]

Hi,

> In named.conf In Alma Linux 9 Bind 9.20.23 Stable version, I set this directive:
> pid-file "/run/named/named.pid";
> 
> /var/named is mounted as root:root so there is no permission to write
> pid file to /var/named
> infact I see "permission denied" in messages file.
> 
> /run/named is temporary file system, how can I force it to create It
> with named:named permission ?
> 
> What do you suggest me ?

Are you starting named as root? (Passing -u <user> enable named to switch to "user" after doing some operations that might requiring privileged user like listening on ports < 1024 or writing the .pid file.)

Perhaps something related to an SELinux labeling issue?

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Colin Vidal -- colin at isc.org
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