diff -urN bind-8.2.2_P5.org/src/bin/named/ns_config.c bind-8.2.2_P5/src/bin/named/ns_config.c
--- bind-8.2.2_P5.org/src/bin/named/ns_config.c	Tue Nov  9 00:09:42 1999
+++ bind-8.2.2_P5/src/bin/named/ns_config.c	Wed Feb  2 17:30:14 2000
@@ -1445,8 +1445,10 @@
 		return (NULL);
 	}
 		
+        /* If file isn't our or named is running as root */
+	if ((geteuid() == 0) || (geteuid() != sb.st_uid))		
 	(void)unlink(filename);
-	fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
+	fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,
 		  S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		return (NULL);