Permission denied errors when starting bind9 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Plesk 10

config — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:11:32 +0000

If you are getting the following in your error log and you cannot start bind9 on Ubuntu 10.04 server with Plesk 10 installed:

named[5372]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
named[5372]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: permission denied
named[5372]: loading configuration: permission denied
named[5372]: exiting (due to fatal error)

Try this to solve the problem:
Add this to the AppArmor named profile (/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named) :

# plesk runs bind9 in chroot, giving permissions
/var/named/run-root/** rw,

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config — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:35:09 +0000

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Permission denied errors when starting bind9 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Plesk 10

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