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

[cpaul <inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks Frank

is doing this considered risky?


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Hello Chris,

make the directory /var/run read-writeable for all "chmod 777 /var/run". 
Then named can create his pid-file there.

greets frank

Am Montag, 16. Juli 2001 09:01 schrieben Sie:
> 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
>