Hi Siôn I can touch the file allright as user opendnssec:
[visser@cajones ~]$ ls -ld /var/run/opendnssec/ drwxr-xr-x 2 opendnssec opendnssec 40 2012-02-28 13:35 /var/run/opendnssec/ [visser@cajones ~]$ sudo su -s /bin/bash opendnssec -c 'touch /var/run/opendnssec/blah' [visser@cajones ~]$ ls -la /var/run/opendnssec/blah -rw-r--r-- 1 opendnssec opendnssec 0 2012-02-28 13:35 /var/run/opendnssec/blah It does not matter if I run as root, do not drop privs, chmod 777 /var/run/opendnssec Dick On 28 February 2012 12:38, Siôn Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/02/12 22:10, Dick Visser wrote: >> >> Have installed the ods packages from >> https://launchpad.net/~pkg-opendnssec/+archive/ppa/ on my Ubuntu 10.04 >> box. >> Install went smooth, but after initial config actually running it fails: >> >> Feb 27 23:02:57 cajones ods-enforcerd: opendnssec starting... >> Feb 27 23:02:57 cajones ods-enforcerd: opendnssec Parent exiting... >> Feb 27 23:02:57 cajones ods-enforcerd: opendnssec forked OK... >> Feb 27 23:02:57 cajones ods-enforcerd: pidfile >> /var/run/opendnssec/enforcerd.pid already exists. If no ods-enforcerd >> process is running, a previous instance didn't shutdown cleanly, >> please remove this file and try again. >> >> There is nothing in /var/run/opendnssec/ to begin with. >> Also /var/lib/opendnssec/tmp is empty. >> >> Any dieas? >> > > Could it be getting confused by permissions? Could you try: > > touch /var/run/opendnssec/blah.tmp > > as either the user that is running ods-control; or the user/group dropped to > by the ods-enforcerd process (configured in conf.xml). > > If this is the issue then we will need to fix this misleading error message. > > Thank you. > > Sion > _______________________________________________ > Opendnssec-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opendnssec.org/mailman/listinfo/opendnssec-user -- Dick Visser System & Networking Engineer TERENA Secretariat Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Opendnssec-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendnssec.org/mailman/listinfo/opendnssec-user
