Re: [cobalt-users] [RAQ3] Server down - suggestions please?!??

["Nico Meijer" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sean,

> my named is running as root too.. shouldnt it be?

In one word: NO, NO, NO! It shouldn't and it doesn't have to.

> i havnt made it run as root.

Nobody's blaming you here. ;-)

AFAIK, the proper way for named to run as another user (preferably user
'named') you should use the "-u named" switch.
Snippet from my /etc/rc.d/init.d/named (on a generic RedHat boxen):

start() {
        # Start daemons.
        echo -n "Starting named: "
        daemon named -u named
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/named
        echo
        return $RETVAL
}

Have you restarted named after upgrading to the latest version?

Hope this helps... Nico