From RHEL to CentOS BIND 9

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Dec 5 19:20:10 UTC 2007


> >failed while receiving responses: permission denied
> 
> The FAQ tells that this is a permissions problem and that;
> 
> ///
> If named is invoked as "named -t /chroot/DNS" with the following named.conf 
> then "/chroot/DNS/var/named/sl" needs to be writable by the user named is 
> running as.
> \\\
> 
> So, this is where things get silly and not as simple as a few have said this 
> should be since I've changed nothing so far other than have done what I need 
> to do, move the files over, restart as new server, etc.
> 
> named is running as user named.
> 
> # ls -la /var/named/chroot/var/named/
> total 120


> drwxr-x--- 4 root  named 4096 Dec  4 15:26 .

	"named" does NOT have write permission on /var/named/chroot/var/named.

> drwxrwx--- 5 root  named 4096 Dec  4 11:08 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1413 Apr 24  2007 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1583 Oct 19 14:01 xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   230 May 25  2007 xx.in-addr.arpa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1630 Dec  4 15:26 xxx.com
> drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Aug 25  2004 data
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   888 Dec  4 14:50 xxx.net
> -r--r--r-- 1 root  root   405 Aug 15  2006 localhost.rev
> -r--r--r-- 1 root  root   284 Jun 15  2001 make-localhost
> -r--r--r-- 1 root  root     0 Apr 30  2006 xxx.com.lock
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  2517 Aug  9  2006 named.root
> -r--r--r-- 1 root  root     0 Apr 30  2006 xxx.com.lock
> -r--r--r-- 1 root  root   397 Aug 12  2002 PROTO.localhost.rev
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   698 Apr 24  2007 xxx.com
> drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Dec  4 14:17 slaves
> 
> I'm guessing that these files need to be owner by at least root/named to begi
> n 
> with?
> 
> All files in the slave directory are owned by named.named.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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