log file permssion error

[Frank Saxton]

Puye, Alhagie - ADP Dataphile wrote:

> Hello all,
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> I'm getting the following error message from syslog:
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> Apr  3 04:04:30 thor named[7999]: unable to rename log file
> '/var/log/bind.log' to '/var/log/bind.log.0': permission denied
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> I'm running BIND 9.3.0rc4. The daemon is running as user "named" on a Red
> Hat ES 3 box.
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> root owns /var/log and the permissions on that directory is 755
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> name owns /var/log/bind.log and the permissions on that file are 644
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> Any ideas why I would be getting this?
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> Thanks in advance
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> Alhagie Puye - Systems Support Engineer
> 
> ADP Dataphile
> 
> Vancouver, BC V6C 3A8
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> (604)687-2133 x2315
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Try writing your logs to /var/log/named/bind.log where named owns and has
write access to /var/log/named

You'll probably need to tweak with your log roll script which is what seems
to be complaining.