Hi. While configuring named on my sweet new Soekris 5501 I discovered a little *uhm* misconfiguration (I would not call it a bug).
By default the permissions of /var/named/master is set to 0755 and owned by root:wheel. named runs in the chroot /var/named with the user named, group named. For most operations this permission/ownership is sufficient. But if you try to use dynamic updates named will fail to create the required "journals": 15-Jun-2008 16:31:29.885 zone internal.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN: sending notifies (serial 200806131) 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.278 client 192.168.254.202#1025: updating zone '11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN': adding an RR at 'nibbler.11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org' A 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.279 client 192.168.254.202#1025: updating zone '11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN': adding an RR at 'nibbler.11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org' TXT 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.280 journal file master/11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org.jnl does not exist, creating it 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.280 master/11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org.jnl: create: permission denied 15-Jun-2008 16:40:22.280 client 192.168.254.202#1025: updating zone '11g.wlan.badphish.dyndns.org/IN': error: journal open failed: unexpected error and dynmic updates will not work. Simple fix: chown named /var/named/master Is this a known issue? At least the permissions of /var/named/master is root:wheel since 4.1 (I am using 4.3 right now). Perhaps can be fixed in 4.4 or is there a special reason to set /var/named/master to root:wheel? Many thanks in advance, Andreas. -- Windows 95: A 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition.
