9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade

[Danny Mayer]

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.
> 

You need to set up yourself on the directory the permissions for the 
account being used to run named.

Danny