Another 9.5.1b1upgrade issue (annoying but not a show stopper)

Rob Tanner rtanner at linfield.edu
Tue Jul 15 18:44:39 UTC 2008


I'm upgrading for 9.3.4 (Fedora core distro version) to 9.5.1b1 from 
source and I have a file permissions issue reading and writing the PID 
file that does not exist for 9.3.4.  I've seen a number of posting with 
the problem but no posted solutions.
/var/run is owned by root and has permissions 755.  In the folder, 
/var/run/named is owned by the user "named" and has permissions 770, so 
the daemon, which runs as user "named" should have no problem reading, 
writing and deleting the PID file.  But, unless I change the permission 
to /var/run to 777 it fails to write the PID file and exits.  The logic 
of the permissions makes sense and it works with 9.3.4.  Any idea why 
it's failing with 9.5.1b1?

Thanks,

Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College




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