named erroring out

I'm trying to set up a caching named on an RHEL 3 system.

When I try to run it, I get:

Dec 15 14:05:28 hostname named[9153]: couldn't open pid file
'/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied

Dec 15 14:05:48 hostname named[9153]: exiting (due to
early fatal error)

strace'ing named indicates that named is Not setuid'ing, but it Is using
capalities. I assume it's these capabilty restrictions that are
preventing named from writing to /var/run/named, which is mode 770, and
owned by the "named" user.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make named work on this RHEL 3
system?

Thanks!

Dan Stromberg wrote:

>
> Dec 15 14:05:28 hostname named[9153]: couldn't open pid file
> '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied
>
> Dec 15 14:05:48 hostname named[9153]: exiting (due to
> early fatal error)
>
> strace'ing named indicates that named is Not setuid'ing, but it Is using
> capalities. I assume it's these capabilty restrictions that are
> preventing named from writing to /var/run/named, which is mode 770, and
> owned by the "named" user.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make named work on this RHEL 3
> system?

No, but if you're sure it's not a permissions issue you migt want to check
the chroot environment to make sure it contains the *directory*
var/run/named

HTH

C.