relocating the named.pid file

[Ed Ravin]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:45:32AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 	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.

On my Red Hat box, I changed the named startup script to create a symlink
from /var/run/named.pid => /var/run/named/named.pid when named is started.
I had some 3rd party monitoring scripts that wanted to see the PID file in
the normal place.