I'm setting up a backup mx/dns on a vps, its a blank minimal centos 5.2 install and i can't get bind to start
i get the following output in /var/log/messages
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: starting BIND 9.3.4-P1 -u named -c /etc/named.conf -n 1 -u named -t /var/named/run-root
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: found 16 CPUs, using 1 worker thread
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: listening on IPv4 interface venet0:0, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: could not open entropy source /dev/random: file not found
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: using pre-chroot entropy source /dev/random
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': No such file or directory
Feb 19 19:25:53 blacsk543 named[44368]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
the directories /var/run/named and /var/named/chroot/var/run/named/ both exist and appear to be writable to named, but i'm not sure which of these is used