Problem with nsupdate and journal file with Bind9

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> That's what I thought and that is also the wierd part.  
> I'm running bind as root since the 'named -u' option will not work for me. It
>  says:
> 
> >[root at winnie misc]# named -u named
> >named: -u not supported on Linux kernels older than 2.3.99-pre3
> 
> Yet, I'm running Mandrake 7.2, which I'm sure is new enough.  But I did run
> the uname command and did get the following output, so that is probably why u
> name
> does not work.;
> >root at winnie misc]# uname -a
> >inux winnie.mydomain.com 2.2.17-21mdksecure #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 12:52:38 CEST 2
> 000 i686 unknown
> 
> But running named as root.... Shouldn't I be able to create a file....

	Not if root does't have permission.  Named gives up root's ability
	to write to arbitary files.  Look at the permissions again as if
	root was a ordinary user.

> I know root has the permissions.  The files are created in the directory whic
> h is
> specified in the directory option correct?

	The journal are is in the same directory as the corresponding
	master file.

	If you say 'file "/dev/foobar.db";' the journal will be
	"/dev/foobar.db.jnl".

> >     directory "/var/named";
> (I gave root access to everything on the drive, and it still gives me this er
> ror.)
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> -Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> 
> > 	
> > 	File permissions on the directory do not allow the user named
> > 	is running as to create the file db.mydomain.com.jnl.
> > 
> > 	Mark
> > 
> > > 
> > > Having a little problem with getting nsupdate to work in Bind9.  
> > > It's not creating the journal file for me... Here is the output.
> > > 
> > > Jan  8 23:12:53 winnie named[28869]: adding an RR
> > > Jan  8 23:12:53 winnie named[28869]: journal file db.mydomain.com.jnl doe
> s no
> > > t exist, creating it
> > > Jan  8 23:12:53 winnie named[28869]: db.mydomain.com.jnl: create: permiss
> ion 
> > > denied
> > > 
> > > What do you think is wrong?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > > 
> > > Thank you,
> > > -Steven Job
> > --
> > Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
> > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com