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

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Troy Arnold wrote:

> 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. ...

Yes, , did you reboot? One of the patches had a bug in that it needed a
reboot to finish installing, but didn't actualy reboot the server. If you
rebooted for some other reason, it probably finally installed it. 
[This is also a hint you aren't totally current on updates btw, i think a
slightly later repatch fixed this, tho it's minor]

> >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
[etc] 
You don't need those instructions, they were for doing it by hand, the
rpm update now does this by itself...

gsh