Permission denied messages from named

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:02:02PM -0400, Tom Parquette wrote:

[...]
> Messages from all.log:
> Jun 29 18:02:30 Atlas named[301]: fopen() of 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa.dumptmp failed: Permission denied

[...]

> ld -l of /etc/namedb:
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel       610 Mar 27 18:14 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa

[...]
> Results of ps axl:
>    53   301     1   0  96  0  2788 2076 select Is    ??    0:00.53 /usr/sbin/named -d 1 -u bind -g bind


Your "named" process is running as the "bind" user; which has no
permission to read "2.168.192.in-addr.arpa". The fix is to:

	chmod a+r 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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