Permission problem with named

I am trying to install BIND and named on a Mandrake 9.0 system.

Whenever I try to start named, it exits with a message that it can't get
permission to create /var/run/named/named.pid. As far as I can see, all
directories are owned by root.root and have the standard 755 permissions.
What can be the problem?

TIA,

Doug.
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|I am trying to install BIND and named on a Mandrake 9.0 system.
|
|Whenever I try to start named, it exits with a message that it can't get
|permission to create /var/run/named/named.pid. As far as I can see, all
|directories are owned by root.root and have the standard 755 permissions.
|What can be the problem?

Do a strace on the process to see details of the problem. Is this BIND9?
It may run chrooted so /var/run/named/named.pid may be wrt the new root.
It may also run chowned so /var/run/named and below must be writable by
that account.
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> |I am trying to install BIND and named on a Mandrake 9.0 system.
> |
> |Whenever I try to start named, it exits with a message that it can't get
> |permission to create /var/run/named/named.pid. As far as I can see, all
> |directories are owned by root.root and have the standard 755 permissions.
> |What can be the problem?
>
> Do a strace on the process to see details of the problem. Is this BIND9?
> It may run chrooted so /var/run/named/named.pid may be wrt the new root.
> It may also run chowned so /var/run/named and below must be writable by
> that account.
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Thanks. Now it's working anyway. It is in fact BIND 9, and the distro's
supplied HOW-TO is for BIND 8, but I think that I can deal with that.

Doug.
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