OK... didn't get any reply on this but more in-depth googling found the answer to my
problem:
use the line:
pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
in the options section of named.conf.
Many thanks to owner of:
http://karmak.org/archive/2002/08/dns/
/j-p.
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, John-Paul Delaney wrote:
> Hello List... I'm trying to setup bind9 on rh9. I get an error on startup of named
> - cannot open pid file /var/run/named.pid: Permission denied.
>
> However I want to write the pid to /var/run/named/named.pid instead (creating a
> named directory) so I can give the named user read/write rights.
>
> How do I direct writing the file to /var/run/named/ as opposed to /var/run/ ?
>
> I've tried the line PID_FILE=/var/run/named/named.pid in /etc/rc.d/init.d/named but
> it's still trying to write to the /var/run directory.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> /j-p.
>
>
>
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