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

["Render-Vue" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graeme replied with...

Easy enough to fix.

[root@server /var/named]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop

[root@server /var/named]# chown named:named /var/run/named.pid
OR...                     rm /var/run/named.pid

[root@server /var/named]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start
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I then did this...

Command history
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop
Shutting down DNS Server: named ok
> chown named:named /var/run/named.pid
chown: /var/run/named.pid: No such file or directory
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start
Setting up DNS Server:  named

Now I've checked /var/run for the named.pid and there it is the user & group
settings are both at named. The file was already set at named:named prior to
running the commands above.

Anyway we'll see how we go with that as I several other new sites to add
later on today.

Cheers Graeme

Chae