Hi everyone 12.1 BIND 9.8.1-P1 named running without chroot Restarting bind with the init script produces: Starting name server BIND ln: failed to create symbolic link `/var/run/named/named': File exists hh3:/var/run/named # ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 100 Dec 20 20:30 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 740 Dec 20 19:56 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 20 20:10 named -> /var/run/named -rw-r--r-- 1 named named 5 Dec 20 20:30 named.pid -rw------- 1 named named 102 Dec 20 20:30 session.key Stop bind and we get: hh3:/var/run/named # ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 60 Dec 20 20:31 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 740 Dec 20 19:56 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 20 20:10 named -> /var/run/named The workaround is not to use /etc/init.d/named: killall -9 named chkconfig named off rm -r /var/run/named mkdir /var/run/named chown named:root /var/run/named named -u named 1. Why is the link, named -> /var/run/named created? 2. If the link needs to be created upon starting and deleted upon ending, then why does root create it? Need confirmation that this is not a bug. Thanks for your patience. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org