On Friday 25 September 2009 11:21:41 Tom Horsley wrote: > I recently enabled dynamic DNS for the virtual machines I've > been installing and named started getting errors (running > as chroot) trying to write .jnl files to the /var/named > directory under the chroot. Fixing the directory to > be root:named 770 instead of root:named 750 took care of > that. > > Then with the recent update of bind and bind-chroot, I started > seeing these messages in the log: > > Sep 25 08:03:21 zooty named[12710]: dumping master file: tmp-PDw9vymVVL: > open: permission denied > > I'm not sure what directory it is trying to write those > in, but I found and chmodded a few more directories > and haven't seen one of those messages since. > > Should directory permissions be adjusted in one or more > of the rpms to take these things into account? > 1. Don't turn selinux off on your local name-server system ... it actually works fine with bind/named. 2. You really do not need to run chroot'ed if you have selinux enabled. However, it will run fine and with selinux -- this will give you an "belt and suspenders" solution for named security. 3. As currently implemented on Fedora 11, dynamic updates (by dhcpd I assume) need to have your "database" files in either a "dynamic" or a "slaves" subdirectory of the "named" directory (either one will work). 4. Then, in the zone definitions in the named.conf file, you need to point to the subdirectory with something like: file "dynamic/lcl.db"; rather than: file "lcl.db"; Gene -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines