Dynamic zone update problems, continued

[Bruce Johnson]

Turne out to be a dumdum mistake on my part. SELinux was set to enforce…set it to permissive and voila! the .jnl file was created. 

I coulda sworn I’d fixed that before...

> On Mar 5, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Grant Taylor via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> On 3/5/21 12:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> Fixing the permissions and restarting named got dynamic updating working again, but new systems (ie names that are NOT already in the Zone file ) are throwing errors about the journal file: error: journal open failed: unexpected error
> 
> It seems like you still have a permissions error.
> 
> Can the user that named is running as create new files in the directory where the zone is stored?
> 
>> Is there a specific command to create the .jnl file? I thought named created it automatically as needed. (at least the named-journalprint man page indicates this…)
> 
> I don't remember ever needing to manually create a journal (.jnl) file. I think that named always did it.
> 
> Named will create, modify, and remove the journal file as needed.  rndc freeze will sync the in memory zone contents to the journal file.  rndc sync will sync the journal file to the main zone file.  The -clean option to rndc sync will remove the journal file.  --  Don't forget to rndc thaw a frozen zone to start allowing dynamic updates again.
> 
> Beyond that, I've not needed to worry about the journal file or it's contents.
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> -- 
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
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Information Technology Group

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