Hello everyone here,
I'm posting this in this mailinglist since my problem showed up when I updated BIND to the latest version provided by SuSE.
Since then (presumably because it doesn't run under root privileges anymore?) named complains:
Mar 6 00:25:02 calvin named[5129]: couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid'
I already tried to make named.pid owned by user named.
What to do here?