Trying to have ISPConfig installed on Cent OS 4.4 on Opteron 64 bit Asus 1U Rack server, 2 gigs RAM, SATA Raid 250 GB drives, software Raid. Really need help with this. When using ISPConfig to configure DNS, named fails to start. /etc/init.d/named start --> FAILED named.conf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ options { pid-file "/var/named/chroot/var/run/named/named.pid"; directory "/var/named"; auth-nxdomain no; /* * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source * directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged * port by default. */ // query-source address * port 53; }; // // a caching only nameserver config // zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "named.local"; }; zone "58.150.205.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "pri.58.150.205.in-addr.arpa"; }; zone "mydomain.com" { type master; file "pri.mydomain.com"; }; //// MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! //// ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /var/log/messages ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named -t /var/named/chroot Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: using 2 CPUs Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 205.150.58.159#53 Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.1.112#53 Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: command channel listening on ::1#953 Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: couldn't open pid file '/var/named/chroot/var/run/named/named.pid': No such file or directory Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named[4390]: exiting (due to early fatal error) Nov 10 17:04:32 myserver named: named startup failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looks like your BIND daemon is not chrooted correctly. Please post the output of: ls -la /var/named/chroot/var/run/named/