[openSuSE 11.1] the working directory is not writable

[Mark Andrews]

In message <38a5da31-c967-4558-8659-ffaec0e437c0 at s9g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, Lothar Behrens writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I have read some postings here in the group that states to set the
> group writability for the named directory.
> But it still keeps logging the error message from the topic.
> 
> Log:
> 
> Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: starting BIND 9.5.0-P2 -t /var/
> lib/named -u named

	Upgrade:

2389.   [bug]           Move the "working directory writable" check to after
                        the ns_os_changeuser() call. [RT #18326]

> Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker
> thread
> Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: loading configuration from '/etc/
> named.conf'
> Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: the working directory is not
> writable
> 
> My working directory is /var/lib/named and the permissions ara as
> follows:
> 
> vmhost:/var/lib # ls -l named
> total 52
> -rw-r--r-- 1 named named  192 Jul  4  2001 127.0.0.zone
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  260 Jan  7 13:01 192.168.100.zone
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  230 Jan  6 22:35 192.168.150.zone
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  217 Jan  6 22:35 192.168.178.zone
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 named named  467 Jan  9 11:30 behrens.de
> drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Jan  6 20:51 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec  9 20:40 dyn
> drwxr-xr-x 3 named named 4096 Jan  9 11:55 etc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 named named  158 Jul  4  2001 localhost.zone
> drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Jan  9 11:32 log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 named named 2878 Dec  9 20:40 root.hint
> drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Dec  9 20:40 slave
> drwxr-xr-x 4 named named 4096 Jan  6 18:21 var
> 
> vmhost:/var/lib # ls -l
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 8 named      named      4096 Jan  9 11:30 named
> 
> I have added g+w permissions to the zone files and behrens.de, but
> this also doesn't help.
> 
> My named.conf looks like this:
> 
> options {
> 
>         # The directory statement defines the name server's working
> directory
> 
>         directory "/var/lib/named";
> 
>         # Write dump and statistics file to the log subdirectory.  The
>         # pathenames are relative to the chroot jail.
> 
>         dump-file "/var/log/named_dump.db";
>         statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";
> 
> ...
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?
> 
> Are the dump-file and statistics-file entries the reason ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lothar
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