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

["Troy Arnold" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

After updating DNS changes in the GUI I have been receiving the following
errors in my LogCheck reports (all related to new DNS entries).

Jan 16 13:31:05 www named[2005]: master zone "mydomain.org" (IN) loaded
(serial 2002011613)
Jan 16 13:31:05 www named[2005]: master zone "mydomain.net" (IN) loaded
(serial 2002011613)
Jan 16 13:31:05 www named[2005]: couldn't create pid file
'/var/run/named.pid'
Jan 16 13:31:05 www named[2005]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1166

Everything is still functioning fine. I never changed "named" from "root" as
listed in the excerpt I found in the lists on this issue. Unless this was
performed by one of the many updates which I believe it was. Check out the
post below that I found. It outlines someone else having the same problem
(except they made the change themselves). Confused, any ideas?

snip
>I recently followed suite like many others on this list and changed "named"
>on our systems to run as user "named" vs. user "root". But we're seeing
this
>error in our logs when we make DNS changes in the GUI.
>Apr 11 23:25:19 blue named[27721]: couldn't create pid file
>'/var/run/named.pid'
>-BUT- everything appears to be running okay and with no (apparent)
problems.
>There is a named.pid sitting in /var/run/ (created by user named) and it's
>permissions appear to be correct:
>-rw-r--r--   1 named    named    6 Apr 11 00:09 named.pid
>The changes we made to change things over to a "named" user were as
follows:
>useradd -c "Named" -u 25 -s /bin/false -r -d /etc/named named 2>/dev/null
|| :
>This creates group/user "named" and sends any connections to a null device.
>Then we changed the two "daemon named" references in /etc/rc.d/init.d/named
>to the following:
>daemon named -u named -g named
>Then restarted everything and it seems to work like a charm, short of this
>error we see in the logs when we make changes to DNS.

Again, I never made the above (snipped info) changes to my server so I am a
bit confused. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Best regards,
Troy Arnold
websetters, inc.