Hi Erwin, are you by any chance starting it with knotc? I realized there is
a problem, because knotc needs to create
an empty PID file to indicate that knotd instance is starting. But it
mustn't drop privileges before starting knotd so it could result in PID
file created in an inaccessible location. I have corrected this behavior
and knotc start should work well in this case as well (will be included in
the next release). In meantime, you can start it with running knotd
directly (or knotd -d for daemonized mode). This should correctly drop
privileges and run. I am almost thinking that keeping 'knotc start/stop'
doesn't bring any extra benefit since it doesn't do anything extra.
Cheers,
Marek
On 23 April 2013 13:13, Erwin Lansing <erwin(a)dk-hostmaster.dk> wrote:
  Thanks for the 1.2.0, some really nice features in
there.  I especially
 like the zonestatus command.
 I have one problem though.  It seems that knot drops its root privileges
 too early, before trying to bind to the interface.
 Configured with:
 system { user bind.bind };
 Results in:
 Apr 23 12:26:26 l knot[25585]: [error] Could not bind to UDP interface
 127.0.0.1 port 53.
 Apr 23 12:26:26 l knot[25585]: [error] Could not bind to UDP interface ::1
 port 53.
 Changing to root.bind, makes it work, hence my guess it's related to
 dropping privileges.  This is on FreeBSD 9.0.
 Any hints appreciated.
 Best,
 Erwin
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