named won't run - clarification please?s

[Maria Kelly]

Hello I read with interest the correspondance regarding named as I was having the same problem myself. I followed the advice given and seem to have resolved the issue I think.  However if someone would could clarify what is going on with the following I would be grateful. I can't figure it out from the documentation.   On  booting machine and running named -g I get the output listed previously       couldn't open pid file /var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied     exiting due to fatal error I get the same with /usr/sbin/named   To confirm it wasn't running I ran dig  www.tcd.ie and got connection timed out, no server could be reached   I then ran /sbin/services named start  as suggested in your discussion named -g gave the following output   starting Bind 9.2.0 -g using 1 CPU loading configuration from '/etc/named/conf' no IPv6 interfaces found listening on IPv4 onterface lo 127.0.0.1#53 binding TCP socket: address in use listening on IPv4 onterface lo xxx.x.xxx.xxx#53 binding TCP socket: address in use /etc/named/conf:19 couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953:address in use ignoring config file logging statement due to -g option couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': File exists exiting (due to early fatal error)   At this stage I thought named had failed to start however dig www.tcd.ie came back with an answer and came back much faster as expected second time round. So really what I want to know is can I assume named is working as expected. I think it is. What is the above error message about? Should I be worried about command channel #953?     Any information appreciated   Thanks   Maria     email [EMAIL PROTECTED]