[CentOS] Bind won't start.

[Scott Robbins]

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.



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