Re: Runing Bind under User Bind
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:32:04AM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:46:07PM +1300, Johnno wrote:
>
> > I am trying to get named to work under the user bind but I keep on getting
> > errors:
> > Oct 18 14:39:34 woody named[1117]: couldn't open pid file
> > '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
> > Oct 18 14:39:34 woody named[1117]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
> >
> > in the /var directory
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 18 14:39 run
>
> Your user bind would write a file in /var/run, but it's not allowed.
I ran BIND this way, I seem to recall chown'ing that pid file once and
never having a problem with it again for the lifetime of the box.
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