Alexey Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  Dear List,
>
> I;m trying to setup bind9 on my woody box to run as non-root.
> The problem I have is that non-root named cannot write to /var/run/named.pid
> One solution I see is to make /var/run group writeable or to recompile named
> to use pid=/var/run/named/named.pid.
>
>  How other debian users circumvent this problem?

Run bind9 in a chroot.  I basically used the configuration from this
page:

http://cryptio.net/~ferlatte/config/

with the exception of using 

     mount --bind /var/lib/bind9/etc/bind /etc/bind

instead of 

     ln -s /var/lib/bind9/etc/bind /etc/bind

-- 
People said I was dumb, but I proved them!


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