Unexpected error question
Cherney John-CJC030
John.Cherney at motorola.com
Fri Feb 6 14:14:42 UTC 2009
Ah! Now I see. Thank you! That has narrowed my search area. I'll post
back when I find the file I need to change.
Thanks,
jwc
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark_Andrews at isc.org [mailto:Mark_Andrews at isc.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:11 PM
To: Cherney John-CJC030
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected error question
In message
<F021020DA23B6641A05E616D5EAD146304597530 at de01exm60.ds.mot.com>, "Ch
erney John-CJC030" writes:
> Yes, I normally use svcadm disable dns/server to stop named. Also,
> I've modified the dns/server stop method from the usual "kill:" to
> "/usr/sbin/rndc stop". I did that because I want to make sure the
> cache gets written to the db files, which an rndc stop does. It seems
> that named is having a problem with one of the files, but I can't tell
> which one from the first syslog message.
It is only one error split over two messages.
isc_log_write(ns_g_lctx, NS_LOGCATEGORY_GENERAL,
NS_LOGMODULE_MAIN, ISC_LOG_ERROR,
"%s:%d: unexpected error:", file, line);
isc_log_vwrite(ns_g_lctx, NS_LOGCATEGORY_GENERAL,
NS_LOGMODULE_MAIN, ISC_LOG_ERROR,
format, args);
Mark
> jwc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Hicks [mailto:ghicks at hicks-net.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:56 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org; Cherney John-CJC030
> Cc: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
> Subject: RE: Unexpected error question
>
>
> > Subject: RE: Unexpected error question
> > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:51:05 -0500
> > From: "Cherney John-CJC030" <John.Cherney at motorola.com>
> > To: <bind-users at isc.org>
> >
> > I see. I was assuming that the second line was caused by the first
> line,
> > and that if I could get more info on the first line, I could take
> > care
>
> > of both of them. I have a "named" user that the named process is run
> as.
> > However, I see these errors even when I use rndc stop as root.
> >
> > Is there any resource that recommends what permissions need to be on
> > specific SMF files for DNS? (or in general). Or is this even a
> > permissioning issue with SMF files?
>
> The problem comes from the idea that SMF wants to be the 'controller'.
> When the program in question (named in the case) receives a 'stop'
> command from rndc, SMF doesn't know WHY the program stopped, just that
> it DID stop. Thus the error.
>
> A better way to stop named might be
>
> svcadm named disable
>
> (I think that's the right syntax but could be wrong. I am NOT an SMF
> expert...) That should avoid the error message.
>
> There was some discussion on the smf-discuss at opensolaris.org list last
> month on how to avoid error messages when you don't care if the
> underlying service stops all by itself.
>
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > jwc
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark_Andrews at isc.org [mailto:Mark_Andrews at isc.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:18 AM
> > Cc: Cherney John-CJC030; bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: Unexpected error question
> >
> >
> > In message <200902050609.n1569kTG082641 at drugs.dv.isc.org>, Mark
> Andrews
> > writes:
> > >
> > > In message
> > <F021020DA23B6641A05E616D5EAD1463045973CF at de01exm60.ds.mot.com>, "
> > > Ch
> > > erney John-CJC030" writes:
> > > > I'm seeing the following lines in syslog, which occur when I
> > > > shut down
> > > > named:
> > > > =20
> > > > general: error: ./main.c:858: unexpected error:
> > > > general: error: smf_disable_instance() failed for
> > > > svc:/network/dns/server:default : insufficient privileges for
> action
> >
> > > > =20 I'm running 9.3.5-P1 on Solaris 10 x86 =20 I took a quick
> > > > look
>
> > > > at the source code and it looks like there should be a file
> > > > and/or
>
> > > > filenumber as part of the unexpected error line. I've noticed
> > > > the same two lines when I issue an rndc stop. The named process
> > > > does stop, but I'm worried that there may be data in the cache
> > > > that
> isn't
> >
> > > > getting written to the db files. Nothing jumped out at me from
> > > > my google search. It seems like I have a file permissions issue,
> > > > but
> I
> > > > haven't recently changed any file permissions. I don't see any
> > > > unusual messages on startup.=20 =20 Can someone point me the
> > > > right
>
> > > > direction for this? Is there any other information I
> > > > should/could provide?
> > > > =20
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > jwc
> > >
> > > SMF is Sun's management facility. The code in question was
> > > submitted by Sun. I would be looking at how you have SMF set
> > > up in particular how to give the user named is running under
> > > permission to disable itself.
> >
> > See also
> > <http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris>
> > as mentioned in the FAQ.
> >
> > >
> > > Mark
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