9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade

[Vinny Abello]

At 06:51 PM 9/28/2005, Jim McAtee wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.isc.org>
>Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:18 PM
>Subject: Re: 9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade
>
>
> > It shouldn't be necessary to uninstall. You can just install over
> > the old one. The installer was designed to take care of that, unless
> > there's an issue that I forgot about.
>
>
>I'm running into a snag.  I had been running 9.2.3 under the Local System
>account.  Installing 9.3.1, it created a local user account 'named' and I
>set a password.  Starting up, BIND threw the following error:
>
>28-Sep-2005 16:40:00.888 general: critical: couldn't open pid file
>'C:\WINNT\System32\dns\etc\named.pid': File exists
>28-Sep-2005 16:40:00.888 general: critical: exiting (due to early fatal
>error)
>
>I deleted the named.pid file, then received this one:
>
>28-Sep-2005 16:40:12.279 general: critical: couldn't open pid file
>'C:\WINNT\System32\dns\etc\named.pid': Permission denied
>28-Sep-2005 16:40:12.279 general: critical: exiting (due to early fatal
>error)
>
>Should the installer have set the necessary permissions, or is this left
>to the user?  I installed the new version while logged in under a domain
>admininstrator account.

Sounds as if you are running under Windows 2003 which has tighter 
permissions (which is good). I generally set the permissions the 
first time I install it to the proper settings for the needed 
accounts. This is always a good idea when running a service under an 
account other than SYSTEM (which is also a good idea). Providing you 
use the same account in the future there should be no issue. Just 
give the user read/write access to the installation directory and 
that should be sufficient. You can get a little more restrictive if 
you want (writing is not necessary to the bin directory for example).

Vinny Abello
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