sorry. found a response from http://www.isc.org I move the pid file to /var/named
Mr. Hunley, you may need to add some notes to your bind9 installation guide... :) Chang wrote: > > I was following the SxS to reocmpile my bind 9 to start as user named. > I got this error: > > Jan 1 14:40:40 server named[11022]: Jan 01 14:40:40.073general: > critical: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied > Jan 1 14:40:40 server named[11022]: Jan 01 14:40:40.073general: > critical: exiting (due to early fatal error) > > what should be the permission and owners of /var/run? -- The pivotal point is the "second chance", judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf and news://news.hkpcug.org _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users