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



On Saturday 19 January 2002 03:21 pm, Troy Arnold wrote:
> Ran those grep's as Gerald recommended and received the same results.
> # cat /etc/passwd | grep named
> named:x:25:25:Named:/etc/named:/bin/false
> # cat /etc/group | grep named
> named:x:25:
>
> Strangely the error is now gone from my logs and only showed up the day I
> added some new dns entries. Everything is functioning properly, or so I
> suppose. Hmmm.
>

You will only see the error when you restart named.
The error won't cause a problem, but /var/run/named will not contain the 
correct pid.

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