RedHat 6.2

[Don Stokes]

In article <39214C49.31444857 at netwoman.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>,
Claude Frantz  <claude at netwman.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de> wrote:
>On RedHat 6.2 named ist running as user "named" and group "named". 
>It cannot create /var/run/named.pid because of wrong permission. 
>What is wrong ?

Are you starting named with -u or using su to set named's user-id?
Assuming the former, and assuming you launch named from root, it
actually creates the pid file before setting the user-ID.  When you
reload, it tries to re-create the pid file (why?), and since it's not
root anymore, it can't.  But if it could, it would have written the same
PID into the file anyway...

-- don