I'm having a strange problem. I set up a DNS server for my domain today, and when I tried to start it, it wouldn't start. I consulted the log files and found this:
Dec 12 15:51:38 bullet named[7707]: starting BIND 9.2.5 -u named -n 1 Dec 12 15:51:38 bullet named[7707]: using 1 CPU Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.2#53 Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied Dec 12 15:51:39 bullet named[7709]: exiting (due to early fatal error) When I was trying to start the named server I did so as the root user. I checked the permissions on /var/run: bullet log # ls -l /var total 48 drwxr-xr-x 4 named named 4096 Dec 12 14:13 bind drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Sep 25 12:55 cache drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 6 07:04 db drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 2005 empty drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Dec 11 00:49 lib drwxrwxr-x 3 root uucp 4096 Nov 27 09:31 lock drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Dec 12 15:52 log lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 5 17:56 mail -> /var/spool/mail drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 12 15:51 run drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 28 13:09 spool drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 2005 state drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4096 Dec 12 14:41 tmp drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 3 04:14 www As you can see the run directory is 755, which should be acceptible - not to mention that it was the root account that was trying to start named. I checked inside /var/run itself: bullet log # ls -l /var/run total 72 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Dec 12 14:57 apache2.pid srwx------ 1 apache root 0 Dec 12 14:57 cgisock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 28 15:32 console -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Dec 4 09:18 cron.pid drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Dec 12 14:42 dovecot drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Dec 11 17:21 mysqld drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec 12 14:13 named -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov 27 14:32 ntpd.pid drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Dec 11 00:47 openldap -rw------- 1 root root 512 Nov 27 09:31 random-seed -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 5 Dec 10 22:14 rpc.statd.pid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 27 14:32 samba drwxr-xr-x 4 root utmp 4096 Dec 1 16:26 screen -rw------- 1 root smmsp 45 Dec 12 09:43 sendmail.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Nov 27 09:31 sshd.pid -rw------- 1 root root 5 Dec 12 15:52 syslog-ng.pid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 5 16:58 usb -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 6144 Dec 12 14:33 utmp There is a named directory there, but it's empty. I assume that it was automatically created when I emerged bind early this afternoon. Any thoughts on what's causing this error? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
