#/etc/init.d/named restart
Stopping named: [Failed]
Starting named: [ ok ]


#less /var/log/messages
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3437]: starting BIND 9.2.3rc2 -u named
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3437]: using 1 CPU
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named: named startup succeeded
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.2#5
3
Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953

Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid':
Permission denied

Sep 11 11:57:35 mandrake named[3439]: exiting (due to early fatal error)


and no such pid file is present over there (/var/run) and if create a manual pid file over there and restart the named then also same error and pid file automatically removed from /var/run/


any idea??

Hello,

use the following commands

chown -R named.named /var/run
chmod -R 640 /var/run

Hello,

use the following commands

chown -R named.named /var/run
chmod -R 640 /var/run
service named restart

should i do

this
chown -R named.named /var/run
chmod -R 640 /var/run

this will change owner ship of all the files under /var/run/ directory to named

or should i do this

chown -R named.named /var/run/named.pid

but their no such file

Sorry,

I did mistake.

Please use the following commands

chown named.named -R /var/run/named
chmod -R 770 /var/run/named
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start


Please note /var/run/named is a directory.