log file permssion error

J Sloan joe at tmsusa.com
Mon Apr 4 16:35:03 UTC 2005


Puye, Alhagie - ADP Dataphile 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
>
>  
Looks like he user "named" does not have permission to create new files 
in /var/log - I would think log rotation falls under the  purview of the 
logrotate utility, rather than named itself...  Is this the installed 
redhat package, or a custom build?

Joe



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