Bind failed on my server and it won't restart. Here is the error:

Starting named: named: user 'named' unknown



Have tried:

ran /scripts/fixnamed and also /scripts/rebuild_namedconf but that had no effect either.

Can anyone help?

useradd named


in shell ... then try

Then try what?

then try starting bind.

I had the same problem this morning. Tried searching everywhere (here, cpanel forums & Internet) for a solution, even tried adding a user named. Nothing would work.

Finally gave in and submitted a ticket with sm. Was answered in a manner of minutes and the server was back online.

I think it might have something to do with up2date. You might want to submit a ticket and see if they can fix it for you.

up2date was indeed the culprit. Put in a support ticket with SM and they corrected the problems.

For some reason when named was updated, the username "named" was removed from the server.

I myself tried to adduser named but still had no luck.

The problem was that all the files in /var/named were owned by named, but with a UID of 25. The new user "named" that I created did not have a UID of 25 and therefore caused additional problems.

Vince

If anyone else has this problem:



-Chris.

Had the same issue and a tech a TP tried the fix above and just noted the bind will not start.

Can you please PM me a ticket number so I can investigate this issue?