[SOLVED] Bind9 won't start

[NateMan]

I'm setting up a server using the ubuntu 8.04 perfect server guide, and I got to the section where you start bind9 after stopping it. I'm getting errors in my syslog. Here's the section with the errors. I believe it is something to do with permissions, but not sure why. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

May 19 20:36:36 atlas named[6398]: starting BIND 9.4.2 -u bind -t /var/lib/named
May 19 20:36:36 atlas named[6398]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
May 19 20:36:36 atlas named[6398]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
May 19 20:36:36 atlas named[6398]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/named.conf: permission denied
May 19 20:36:36 atlas named[6398]: loading configuration: permission denied
May 19 20:36:36 atlas named[6398]: exiting (due to fatal error)
May 19 20:36:36 atlas kernel: [38722.446742] audit(1211247396.427:2): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" name="/var/lib/named/etc/bind/named.conf" pid=6399 profile="/usr/sbin/named" namespace="default"

[bluefrog]

silly question but have you checked /etc/bind/named.conf ownership and permissions?

[NateMan]

I have, it seems that everyone should be able to read the file, does it need to have write/execute privileges as well? Here's the ls -la for that:

-rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind 907 2008-04-09 14:42 /etc/bind/named.conf

I'm afraid this is the first time bind9 has actually given me a problem.

[bluefrog]

mine is
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bind /etc/bind/named.conf

user not being root is not your problem though. Sorry I am at a loss here.

[NateMan]

Perhaps I should clear it off the machine and reinstall it from there?

[Dr Small]

It is worth a shot. But, try changing ownership first and check the rest of the files in there also. If you need to change ownership, use:

sudo chown root:bind /etc/bind/named.conf