9.2.3 to 9.3.1 Upgrade
Vinny Abello
vinny at tellurian.com
Thu Sep 29 00:28:08 UTC 2005
At 06:51 PM 9/28/2005, 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.
Sounds as if you are running under Windows 2003 which has tighter
permissions (which is good). I generally set the permissions the
first time I install it to the proper settings for the needed
accounts. This is always a good idea when running a service under an
account other than SYSTEM (which is also a good idea). Providing you
use the same account in the future there should be no issue. Just
give the user read/write access to the installation directory and
that should be sufficient. You can get a little more restrictive if
you want (writing is not necessary to the bin directory for example).
Vinny Abello
Network Engineer
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