log file permssion error
Helmut Schneider
jumper99 at gmx.de
Mon Apr 4 16:56:42 UTC 2005
Puye, Alhagie - ADP Dataphile <Alhagie_Puye at adp.com> wrote:
> I'm getting the following error message from syslog:
>
> Apr 3 04:04:30 thor named[7999]: unable to rename log file
> '/var/log/bind.log' to '/var/log/bind.log.0': permission denied
>
> I'm running BIND 9.3.0rc4. The daemon is running as user "named" on a Red
> Hat ES 3 box.
>
> root owns /var/log and the permissions on that directory is 755
So only root may create files at /var/log?!
> name owns /var/log/bind.log and the permissions on that file are 644
But not for /var/log/bind.log.0. So either change permissions on /var/log or
"touch" any files needed.
HTH, Helmut
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