Problem Starting Bind

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a7o78d$m5m at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jeff Grossman  <jeff at grossman.name> wrote:
>
>I just compiled Bind 9.2.0 under a Redhat 7.1 system.  I was running the rpm
>version from Redhat with no problems, but decided to uninstall that version
>and get the latest.
>
>When I start bind with 'named -u named', I get the following error:
>
>couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
>
>Does anybody have any ideas?

/var/run is usually only writable by root, not the named user.  Use the
pid-file option to tell named to store this in another directory that it
has write permission to.

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