Bind 9.3.1

I downloaded Bind 9.3.1 source, compiled it and installed it on a Fedora
Core 4 system. Then I imported the config files from an old RH 7.3 DNS
server (running some old 8. version of Bind).

After changing a few lines in the named.config file, named do start. But I'm
not able to start the named with the "-u named" flag. I get a error that it
can't access /var/run/namned.pid.

I the did a "touch /var/run/named.pid; chown named:named
/var/run/named.pid", but that does not help. Now named complain that the
file already exists.

How can I get this to work?

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In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<(E-Mail Removed)>, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:

>I downloaded Bind 9.3.1 source, compiled it and installed it on a Fedora
>Core 4 system.

Curious why - bind-9.3.1-4 comes with FC4.

>Then I imported the config files from an old RH 7.3 DNS server (running
>some old 8. version of Bind).

That's strange - RH7.3 came with bind-9.2.0-8, and there was an errata
update to bind-9.2.1-1.7x.2 in July 2002. RH7.0 was the last release to
use bind-8 (8.2.2_P5-25), and it was errataed to bind-9.2.1-0.70.2 in 2002.

>After changing a few lines in the named.config file, named do start. But I'm
>not able to start the named with the "-u named" flag. I get a error that it
>can't access /var/run/namned.pid.

What are the permissions of /var/ and /var/run/ ? Can user 'named' read
and write to that directory?

>I the did a "touch /var/run/named.pid; chown named:named
>/var/run/named.pid", but that does not help.

The process ID number (only) should be in the file.

>Now named complain that the file already exists.

Well, that suggests it's not chrooted, but again - what are the permissions?

Old guy

Moe Trin wrote:

> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
> <(E-Mail Removed)>, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:
>
>>I downloaded Bind 9.3.1 source, compiled it and installed it on a Fedora
>>Core 4 system.
>
> Curious why - bind-9.3.1-4 comes with FC4.

I did not know that. And it was not installed from the CDs. Anyway... I like
doing things the hard way... ;-)

>>Then I imported the config files from an old RH 7.3 DNS server (running
>>some old 8. version of Bind).
>
> That's strange - RH7.3 came with bind-9.2.0-8, and there was an errata
> update to bind-9.2.1-1.7x.2 in July 2002. RH7.0 was the last release to
> use bind-8 (8.2.2_P5-25), and it was errataed to bind-9.2.1-0.70.2 in
> 2002.

Again, not installed in the beginning.

>>After changing a few lines in the named.config file, named do start. But
>>I'm not able to start the named with the "-u named" flag. I get a error
>>that it can't access /var/run/namned.pid.
>
> What are the permissions of /var/ and /var/run/ ? Can user 'named' read
> and write to that directory?
>
>>I the did a "touch /var/run/named.pid; chown named:named
>>/var/run/named.pid", but that does not help.
>
> The process ID number (only) should be in the file.

The solution was to create a /var/run/named directory, which was owned by
named:named. Then add a line 'pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid"' in the
config file.

Thanks anyway.
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Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
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