installing on SLES 10sp3

[Lyle Giese]

Lyle Giese wrote:
> I am not running named as named, but as root(no -u on command line).  
> But in testng I did change the permissions on this directory to 777 
> with no change in behaviour and changed it back to 755.
>
> Lyle Giese
> LCR Computer Services, Inc.
>
> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>> Does name own the directory?
>>
>> Quoting Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net>:
>>
>>> I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 
>>> server.
>>>
>>> When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and
>>> write any of the zone files it downloaded.
>>>
>>> named -c /etc/named.conf   (yes I am running this a root)
>>>
>>> The error is
>>> Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: transfer of
>>> '103.0.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/chase' from 209.172.152.3#53: Transfer
>>> completed: 1 messages, 261 records, 5636 bytes, 0.116 secs (48586
>>> bytes/sec)
>>> Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: zone
>>> 103.0.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/chase: sending notifies (serial 2010081601)
>>> Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: dumping master file:
>>> tmp-QJcEgeBZ3h: open: permission denied
>>>
>>> There is never a path mentioned in the permission denied message and
>>> the zone files are not written out to disk.
>>>
>>> I have set a directory in the options section:
>>>
>>> Options {
>>>    directory "/etc/named";
>>> };
>>>
>>> When I run named-checkconf against named.conf, it is always erroring
>>> out against this line(directory line), no matter what I put there or
>>> different syntax I insert.  And yes the directory really does exist.
>>>
>>> named.conf: line 17: change directory to: '/etc/named' failed: file 
>>> not found
>>>
>>> named.conf:line 17: parse failed
>>>
>>> What 'file' is named-checkconf looking for? Or is this a bogus error
>>> message?  Am I missing something else?  I am starting named as root,
>>> but appear to be getting permission issues.  It just does not make any
>>> sense right now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Lyle Giese
>>> LCR Computer Services, Inc.
>>>
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