Down the wrong path

Failed to open /var/run/bind/run/named.pid /var/run/named.pid for writing : Bad file descriptor

I just got this when configuring Bind9  on a Debian with Webmin and could not find the solution anywhere on-line.

So here is how to fix the error.

Remove the faulty path (most likely ‘/var/run/named.pid’) from the file ‘config’ that is located in  ’/etc/webmin/bind8/’. I think its on row 5.