[Kevin Darcy]

Dean Carrera wrote:

> I'm receiving the following errors when starting bind...  I do not have =
> any of these files on my system. Is there something I have to run to =
> generate them...  ?=20
>
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] =
> starting BIND 9.2.1
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] =
> none:0: open: /usr/local/etc/rndc.key: file not found
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] =
> couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: file not found
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] =
> none:0: open: /usr/local/etc/rndc.key: file not found
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] =
> couldn't add command channel ::1#953: file not found
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit] =
> couldn't open pid file '/usr/local/var/run/named.pid': No such file or =
> directory
> Sep 13 16:21:23 atl-stg-web-01 named[16564]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit] =
> exiting (due to early fatal error)

Well, at a bare minimum, you need to create the /usr/local/etc and
/usr/local/var directories.

Either that, or rebuild BIND to use directories that are more appropriate
for your system.


- Kevin