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<p class="MsoNormal">Several months ago, I reported that several of the make tests were failing due to “couldn’t start server ns2” and the like.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Working with the BIND 9.9.2-P2 compile, I just spent several minutes tracking the source of this down with some judicious use of “print” in the ‘bin/tests/system/start.pl’ script and viewing the “*.run” output. It really comes down to file
permissions -- a particular line from “bin/tests/system/inline/ns1/named.run” pointed me in that direction:<o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"">27-Mar-2013 14:24:53.970 could not open file 'named.pid': Permission denied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apparently, the file ownerships for this entire test suite are for a user and group I do not have:<o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"">-rw-rw-r-- 1 10292 9901 2806 Mar 6 11:56 run.sh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the tests, BIND starts up with an empty group descriptor:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">I:issuing command '/home/luther/bind-9.9.2-P2/bin/named/named -m record,size,mctx -T clienttest -c named.conf -d 99 -g >named.run 2>&1 &echo $!'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">I:Checking that reconfiguring empty zones is silent (1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">… which may be part of the problem, at least in my case. So I cheated by issuing a “find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;” command.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, all the tests are successful.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FYI in case anyone runs into this issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#CC3333">Dan Luther</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#333333">Systems Operation Engineering
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color:#7A7A7A">Level 3 Communications<br>
One Technology Center, Tulsa OK 74103<br>
p: 918-547-4370<br>
e: <a href="mailto:name.name@level3.com"><span style="color:blue">dan.luther@level3.com</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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