From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: I try to run named -u nobody and it fails Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try running named on RH 7.3 as any user other than root and it fails 2. named -u nobody 3. ps -ef |grep named 4. nothing 5. named 6. ps -ef |grep named 7, you'll see named process running as root Additional info:
This is on a machine that was upgraded from 7.2 and the 7.2 machine was not running named. After installing 7.3 I decided to setup a caching nameserver and am forced to run as root. This is not desirable.
This problem represents itself when applying the errata bind packages to version 9.2.1. named complains that the -u option is not availble until kernel 2.3.something
So this is not a bug correct?
kernle 2.3? What? This was a RH box that was upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2 to 7.3 and in 7.3 I tried to setup named and it did not work. Something in the 7.1 to 7.3 upgrade and erratas that were applied completely gacked my 7.3 system. I ultimately had to reinstall 7.3 from scratch and this went away.