I figured it out, i submitted as a bug. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4704 >>> Scott Robbins 01/14/11 12:58 PM >>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:04PM -0500, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Dear Group, > > > This is the definition I am using for the forward zone under /var/named/internal.micro.com > > $TTL 24h; > > @ IN SOA plato.internal.micro.com lgrullon.internal.micro.com( > 2011011401 ; Serial > 108000 ; Refresh > 3600 ; Retry > 604800 ; Expire > 86400 ; Minimum > ) > > internal.micro.com. IN NS plato.internal.micro.com. > > Jan 14 07:29:41 plato named[23057]: the working directory is not writable See if that is owned or at least writeable, by named. I vaguely remember running into something similar, and that was the issue--the file wound up being owned by root and not writeable by named. I fear I don't remember the details well. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Principal Snyder: A lot of educators tell students, 'Think of your principal as your pal' I say, 'Think of me as your judge, jury, and executioner. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110114/bd132b4a/attachment-0005.html>