Bind is Broken and will not start (Another Permissions issue)

[David Botham]

Post your named.conf file.

Dave...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:44 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Bind is Broken and will not start (Another Permissions issue)
> 
> 
> I have built a redhat 7.2 box that needs to run a DNS Server.  It was
> all running happily until I re-booted the box and now Bind will not
> start.  The entries in messages are below:
> 
> Aug  8 15:23:09 relay1 named[3627]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
> Aug  8 15:23:09 relay1 named[3627]: using 1 CPU
> Aug  8 15:23:09 relay1 named[3630]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/named.conf'
> Aug  8 15:23:09 relay1 named[3630]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf:
> permission denied
> Aug  8 15:23:09 relay1 named[3630]: loading configuration: permission
> denied
> Aug  8 15:23:09 relay1 named[3630]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> Aug  8 10:23:09 relay1 named: named startup failed
> 
> 
> What has happened? I tried starting it as root but got the same:
> 
> Aug  8 15:39:53 relay1 named[3739]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u root
> Aug  8 15:39:53 relay1 named[3739]: using 1 CPU
> Aug  8 15:39:53 relay1 named[3741]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/named.conf'
> Aug  8 15:39:53 relay1 named[3741]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf:
> permission denied
> Aug  8 15:39:53 relay1 named[3741]: loading configuration: permission
> denied
> Aug  8 15:39:53 relay1 named[3741]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> Permissions are as follows:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   56 root     root         4096 Aug  8 16:15 /etc
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          836 Aug  7 10:45
> /etc/named.conf
> drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Aug  7 10:27 /var
> drwxr-xr-x    2 named    named        4096 Aug  8 15:58 /var/named
> -rw-r--r--    1 named    named         195 Jul  3  2001
> /var/named/localhost.zone
> -rw-r--r--    1 named    named        2769 Jul  3  2001
> /var/named/named.ca
> -rw-r--r--    1 named    named         433 Jul  3  2001
> /var/named/named.local
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          884 Aug  7 10:56
> /var/named/x.com.hosts
> 
> 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks