BIND9 daemon is appending installed path while searching named.conf

[Alan Clegg]

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Lalatendu Das wrote:

> As u mentioned the searching of named.conf from <prefix_path>/etc/
> named.conf can be irradicated by
> mentioning --sysconfdir=/etc.
> And indeed it worked. But the same problem happing for creating
> named.pid file which will created and tried to be opened at the time
> of start of daemon process.

I'm a bit confused. Why are you setting --prefix at all if you want to
override everything that it changes?

[..]
> can't create directory /var/run : Permission denied.
> 
> Is there anyway I can resolve this without being a superuser in that
> machine.

Not without specifying a localstatedir that you have write access to.

You still need to have appropriate permissions to write into system
directories.

AlanC
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