transfer not working

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cr1tu3$1hsd$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Stephan Goldi <expires2005-01-01 at frax.ch> wrote:

> I have 2 DNS: 195.141.143.36 and 195.141.143.37
> 
> On both are the ports 53:tcp and 53:udp open. When I try to do a transfer
> from .36 to .37 with the command 
> "rndc reload document.ch IN default" I get this in the message log of .37:
> 
> Dec 30 09:15:59 deskpro1 named[2974]: dumping master file: 
> /var/named/tmp-XXXXXTPr7f: open: permission denied
> Dec 30 09:15:59 deskpro1 named[2974]: transfer of 'document.ch/IN' from 
> 195.141.143.36#53: failed while receiving responses: permission denied
> Dec 30 09:15:59 deskpro1 named[2974]: transfer of 'document.ch/IN' from
> 195.141.143.36#53: end of transfer

Sounds like you have a file permissions problem.  If you're running 
named as non-root, make sure that the UID it runs as has write 
permission to the directory containing all the zone files.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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