Permission denied, deleting interface

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sun Jul 4 05:28:13 UTC 1999


>> it seems to have to do with running as the bind.bind user.  when run as
>> root, it's ok.
> yes.  bind's initial interface scan and interface bindings are all done
> before the setuid/setgid.  it really should not even bother to rescan the
> interface table after this, but it still does, and if it sees a new alias
> or interface it tries to bind to it, and it fails, and it complains.

aha!  then the problem is that bind is being started before the aliases for
the interface are being installed.  <doh>

and i looked at the /etc/rc, and lo and behold that's what's happening.

grazie.

randy


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