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