Problem Starting Bind

[Will Yardley]

In article <a7o78d$m5m at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> 
> When I start bind with 'named -u named', I get the following error:
> 
> couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied

put the pidfile somewhere the user named can write to (ie put it inside
your main named directory if named has permissions there, put a
directory inside of /var/run owned by named, or something like that).

use the pid-file directive in your 'options' section to specify the pid
file.

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