Problem with named.pid file

Hi I'm trying to set up a bind in a chroot jail but I keep on getting this error.

Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2534]: starting BIND 9.1.0 -t /chroot -u named -c etc/named.conf
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2534]: using 1 CPU
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named: named startup succeeded
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: loading configuration from 'etc/named.conf'
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 19.200.10.27#53
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: couldn't open pid file 'var/run/named.pid': No such file or directory
Apr 29 17:27:57 dnstest named[2536]: exiting (due to early fatal error)


Does anyone know what cause's this and is there a work around. Thanks

fintan.

/var/run/named/named.pid will be generated oly if named is started


Try

1) touch a file named.pid nad try startig named

or

change jail shell /bin/bash

Thanks
Ranjith

It doesn't matter where I specify the pid file. It still says the same error.

I don't really want to go messing with /bin/bash since I have no experience with it.

There should be an easier way than that.

Thanks