[cobalt-developers] couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid'

[cpaul <inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a while ago i changed named so that it would run -u named -g named, at the
time i noticed an error "couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid'" in
my logs.

some suggestions were made, and i followed them, and at the time
everything seemed to be working.

but i am faced with the same problem again.

having just entered a new domain into dns, the error "couldn't create pid
file '/var/run/named.pid'" has turned up in my logs once again.

the file /var/run/named.pid is:
-rw-r--r--   1 named    named           6 Jun 18 09:42 named.pid

so that's ok, but the director /var/run is:
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Jul 15 04:05 run

considering many programs use /var/run, i can't really chown it named.named.

can anyone suggest a way to solve this problem?

thanks,


chris paul