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 Q: Why does BIND 9 log "permission denied" errors accessing its
-configuration files on my Linux sysetm even though it is running as
+configuration files on my Linux system even though it is running as
 root?
 
 A: On Linux, BIND 9 drops most of its root privileges on startup.