9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Thu Sep 29 04:26:03 UTC 2005
Jim McAtee wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.isc.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:18 PM
> Subject: Re: 9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade
>
>
>> It shouldn't be necessary to uninstall. You can just install over
>> the old one. The installer was designed to take care of that, unless
>> there's an issue that I forgot about.
>
>
>
> I'm running into a snag. I had been running 9.2.3 under the Local
> System account. Installing 9.3.1, it created a local user account
> 'named' and I set a password. Starting up, BIND threw the following error:
>
> 28-Sep-2005 16:40:00.888 general: critical: couldn't open pid file
> 'C:\WINNT\System32\dns\etc\named.pid': File exists
> 28-Sep-2005 16:40:00.888 general: critical: exiting (due to early fatal
> error)
>
> I deleted the named.pid file, then received this one:
>
> 28-Sep-2005 16:40:12.279 general: critical: couldn't open pid file
> 'C:\WINNT\System32\dns\etc\named.pid': Permission denied
> 28-Sep-2005 16:40:12.279 general: critical: exiting (due to early fatal
> error)
>
> Should the installer have set the necessary permissions, or is this left
> to the user? I installed the new version while logged in under a domain
> admininstrator account.
>
You need to set up yourself on the directory the permissions for the
account being used to run named.
Danny
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