Named won't start with "isc_stdio_open '/var/log/named/named.log' failed: file not found"

Christopher Barnett

Symptoms

You may see the following error in the message log after a failure to start named.

isc_stdio_open '/var/log/named/named.log' failed: file not found

This is caused by the named log not existing at /var/log/named/named.log.

1) Create the directory if it doesn't exists already.

mkdir /var/log/named/

2) Create the log file.

touch /var/log/named/named.log

3) Change the ownership of the file.

chown named: /var/log/named/named.log

4) Start named.

/scripts/restartsrv_named