jik2:/tmp!1008$ sudo service named restart [sudo] password for jik: Stopping named: [ OK ] Starting named: named: prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE) failed: Success [FAILED] jik2:/tmp!1009$ rpm -q bind; uname -r bind-9.5.0-34.rc1.fc10.i386 2.6.26-0.25.rc3.git4.fc10.i686 jik2:/tmp!1010$
Turns out the PR_SET_DUMPABLE error is a false flag. From /var/log/messages, here's what's really going wrong: May 24 23:41:59 jik2 named[7492]: isc_log_open '/var/run/named/named.run' failed: permission denied May 24 23:41:59 jik2 named[7492]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied /var/run/named isn't group-writeable in the bind RPM, even though it needs to be for the named user to be able to write to it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 448277 ***