DNS /etc/namedb owner hell

Deian Popov deianp at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 15:55:25 UTC 2008


Thank you both, you solved the problem!

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

> Ruben de Groot writes:
>
> >  > I have the following problem with bind:
> >  >
> >  > it is configured to run as bind:bind and after every reboot of the
> system
> >  > all files and directories under /etc/namedb become owned by
> root:wheel so
> >  > bind is unable is unable to update it's zone files after dhcpd leases
> IP to
> >  > any given client. How to fix either owner, or set somewhere that the
> owner
> >  > of this folder, subfolder and files is my DNS server?
> >
> >  Try setting named_chroot_autoupdate to NO in your rc.conf
>
>         Does this still work if you don't run chrooted?
>        To the OP: does this happen every reboot, or when you update the
> system?  I used to have tha latter problem, and fixed it by adding
>
> NO_BIND_ETC=       true    # Do not install files to /etc/namedb
>
>        to /etc/make.conf.  Upsides: no permission mangling, and no
> automatic file update.  Downside: no automatic file update, though
> you can deal with this using mergeaster.
>
>
>                                Robert Huff
>
>


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