I've got what's probably a quick question.

I have to manually start named everytime I start my machine. I created a permissions problem. I was following someone's instructions and created a user "named" and set permissions for named to run as that user.

Now, when my box starts up and tries to run named automatically, my /var/log/messages file shows a permissions error so it doesn't run. I have to manually type "named -u named" to get it to start correctly.

Is there a way I can get it to start automatically as that user?

Thanks in advance.

You could always use rc.local to achieve that ...
Just put a line like this:
into rc.local


Cheers,
Tink

I didn't understand exactly what you typed, but rc.local was the file I was looking for.

I edited the line to read:

/usr/local/sbin/named -u named


and it worked perfectly. Is there a problem doing it the way I typed it?


Thanks so much for the help!

If it works apparently not ;)


Cheers,
Tink

Heh, ok. Thanks man.

Just checking. I basically have no idea what I'm doing in Linux half the time, so just thought I'd be safe and ask. LOL


Thanks again,

ZZ