installing on SLES 10sp3

[dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us]

Does name own the directory?

Quoting Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net>:

> I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server.
>
> When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and
> write any of the zone files it downloaded.
>
> named -c /etc/named.conf   (yes I am running this a root)
>
> The error is
> Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: transfer of
> '103.0.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/chase' from 209.172.152.3#53: Transfer
> completed: 1 messages, 261 records, 5636 bytes, 0.116 secs (48586
> bytes/sec)
> Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: zone
> 103.0.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/chase: sending notifies (serial 2010081601)
> Sep  9 10:40:05 linuxps named[30549]: dumping master file:
> tmp-QJcEgeBZ3h: open: permission denied
>
> There is never a path mentioned in the permission denied message and
> the zone files are not written out to disk.
>
> I have set a directory in the options section:
>
> Options {
>    directory "/etc/named";
> };
>
> When I run named-checkconf against named.conf, it is always erroring
> out against this line(directory line), no matter what I put there or
> different syntax I insert.  And yes the directory really does exist.
>
> named.conf: line 17: change directory to: '/etc/named' failed: file not found
>
> named.conf:line 17: parse failed
>
> What 'file' is named-checkconf looking for? Or is this a bogus error
> message?  Am I missing something else?  I am starting named as root,
> but appear to be getting permission issues.  It just does not make any
> sense right now.
>
>
> Lyle Giese
> LCR Computer Services, Inc.
>
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