Starting BIND 9

[Adam Lang]

Ok, I'm encountering several permission errors when trying to start BIND 9
and I would like some pointers on the better way to do this.

named.conf and rndc.conf are in /etc.

in named.conf, I have the directory as /home/named (all files inside it are
owned by named:named)

I tried named and it bombed with the error of:
change directory to '/home/named' failed: permission denied

So, i tried named -u named and the above worked but then I bomb on this:
couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied

I don't want to mes with file permissions of that directory, so I'm not
quite sure what to do.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com