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[Igmar Palsenberg]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, digitalconscious.com wrote:

> 
> I restarted the named daemon and then went and checked the log file and
> received this message ...
> 
> 
> Oct 28 19:22:12 digitalconsciousness named-xfer[1363]: can't make tmpfile
> (netsurveillance.com.db.tyP6MP): Permission Denied$
> Oct 28 19:22:12 digitalconsciousness named-xfer[1364]: can't make tmpfile
> (canadianartizan.com.db.ExKuPQ): Permission Denied$
> Oct 28 19:22:12 digitalconsciousness named-xfer[1365]: can't make tmpfile
> (semackenze.com.db.TSxsRR): Permission Denied $
> 
> 
> Is there a reason why I'm getting permission denied errors when it tries to
> create temp files for these other zones??

Because you run named as a non-root user probably. Make sure it has rights
wo write the tmp files. (I actually have no idea where named puts
them.. Anyone can enlighten me on that one ??)
 
> and why such strange extensions on the zone temp files ?? or is that
> correct?( canadianartizan.com.db.ExKuPQ }

Security. Mainly agains tmp races.

> I have 3 slaves in my named.conf file,...and it should suck his info back to
> me,...right??
> 
> 
> I would appreciate any help with this....
> 
> Thanks in advance


	Igmar