Regarding named related issue observed with bind 9.11.5-P4 version

[Karl Lovink]

Alan,

Are you running bind on a Linux box with apparmor. Check your apparmor configuration: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named.

Cheers,
Karl 

> On 10 Apr 2019, at 16:31, Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/10/19 10:19 AM, Alan Clegg wrote:
>>> On 4/3/19 5:26 AM, Chandra Rao wrote:
>>> While launching the named service coming from the latest bind as
>>> mentioned below, We have observed that it's is not able to create
>>> "/var/run/named" directory with the named user in the cluster. Due to
>>> this we are not able to store the files "named.pid" and "session.key".
>> 
>> named does not create the directory structure.  You will need to do that
>> yourself.
> 
> Correcting myself before others do (sigh):
> 
> You've not shown how much of the /var/run directory structure exists.
> Does /var/run exist?  What are the permissions on it?
> 
> I've just now looked at the only instance of the "couldn't mkdir"
> message in the BIND source code:
> 
>        if (mkdir(filename, mode) == -1) {
>            strerror_r(errno, strbuf, sizeof(strbuf));
>            (*report)("couldn't mkdir '%s': %s", filename,
>                  strbuf);
>            goto error;
>        }
> 
> (my original comment was based on logging directory structure, not that
> used by session information).
> 
> AlanC
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