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

[Mark Andrews]

> 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

	I suspect Fedora move the open to before the setuid() call.
	This, however, prevents named removing the pid file on exit.

	IMHO pid files should be in "/var/run/<application>" rather
	than "/var/run" allowing appropriate permissions to be set
	on a per application basis.  "/var/run/<application>" can
	also be a symbol link for applications that are running
	chrooted.

	options {
		pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
	};

	Adjust other places as needed.

	Mark
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