Starting BIND 9

[Cihan Subasi (Garanti Teknoloji)]

I just installed my Bind9.1.0 on aix and did the necessary changes in my
conf file.....The server is both master for some zones and slave for some
others...but now I cannot control the the dns with ndc (rndc)...Do I need a
rndc.conf file? or is there a way to work around this problem...? and also
in my version "rndc start" does not exist (how I would start the named with
rndc?)

-----Original Message-----
From: BRANCH DONALD [mailto:DBRANCH at ibjus.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:57 PM
To: Adam Lang; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: Starting BIND 9



Adam

	I created a run directory under /home/named since named owns that
directory and put under the options section in your named.conf file
pid-file "/home/named/run/named.pid";   and that should solve your problem.

Donald Branch
Unix Admin
Mizuho Financial Group (IBJ)

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Lang [mailto:aalang at rutgersinsurance.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:50 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Starting BIND 9



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