[openSuSE 11.1] the working directory is not writable

[Lothar Behrens]

Hi,

I have read some postings here in the group that states to set the
group writability for the named directory.
But it still keeps logging the error message from the topic.

Log:

Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: starting BIND 9.5.0-P2 -t /var/
lib/named -u named
Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker
thread
Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: loading configuration from '/etc/
named.conf'
Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: the working directory is not
writable

My working directory is /var/lib/named and the permissions ara as
follows:

vmhost:/var/lib # ls -l named
total 52
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named  192 Jul  4  2001 127.0.0.zone
-rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  260 Jan  7 13:01 192.168.100.zone
-rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  230 Jan  6 22:35 192.168.150.zone
-rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  217 Jan  6 22:35 192.168.178.zone
-rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  467 Jan  9 11:30 behrens.de
drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Jan  6 20:51 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec  9 20:40 dyn
drwxr-xr-x 3 named named 4096 Jan  9 11:55 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named  158 Jul  4  2001 localhost.zone
drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Jan  9 11:32 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 named named 2878 Dec  9 20:40 root.hint
drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec  9 20:40 slave
drwxr-xr-x 4 named named 4096 Jan  6 18:21 var

vmhost:/var/lib # ls -l

drwxrwxr-x 8 named      named      4096 Jan  9 11:30 named

I have added g+w permissions to the zone files and behrens.de, but
this also doesn't help.

My named.conf looks like this:

options {

        # The directory statement defines the name server's working
directory

        directory "/var/lib/named";

        # Write dump and statistics file to the log subdirectory.  The
        # pathenames are relative to the chroot jail.

        dump-file "/var/log/named_dump.db";
        statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";

...

What am I doing wrong ?

Are the dump-file and statistics-file entries the reason ?

Thanks

Lothar