thanks Frank is doing this considered risky? * * * * Hello Chris, make the directory /var/run read-writeable for all "chmod 777 /var/run". Then named can create his pid-file there. greets frank Am Montag, 16. Juli 2001 09:01 schrieben Sie: > a while ago i changed named so that it would run -u named -g named, at the > time i noticed an error "couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid'" in > my logs. > > some suggestions were made, and i followed them, and at the time > everything seemed to be working. > > but i am faced with the same problem again. > > having just entered a new domain into dns, the error "couldn't create pid > file '/var/run/named.pid'" has turned up in my logs once again. > > the file /var/run/named.pid is: > -rw-r--r-- 1 named named 6 Jun 18 09:42 named.pid > > so that's ok, but the director /var/run is: > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jul 15 04:05 run > > considering many programs use /var/run, i can't really chown it > named.named. > > can anyone suggest a way to solve this problem? > > thanks, > > > chris paul > _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
