Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 01:04:47 -0800 From: Eugene Lee <eugene@anime.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/run/named.pid annoyance Message-ID: <20010312010447.A21036@anime.net> In-Reply-To: <20010312021324.D78116@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:13:25AM -0600 References: <20010311230428.B18069@anime.net> <20010312021324.D78116@northernbrewer.com>
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:13:25AM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: : : Eugene Lee (eugene@anime.net) wrote: : > Mar 12 00:48:47 localhost named[119]: couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid' [...] : > What would be the most secure way to solve this problem? : : This is a permissions problem. User bind does not have permissions to : write files to /var/run. : : The desired workaround is to change the PID file location by adding : this to the "options" section of your /etc/namedb/named.conf file: [rest of solution snipped] Thanks for the tip. I knew it was a permissions thing. And I thought about creating some kind of "daemon" group and changing /var/run, etc. appropriately. But I guess that would just get more messy than setting up a directory for each daemon. -- Eugene Lee eugene@anime.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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