installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread Lyle Giese
I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server. When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and write any of the zone files it downloaded. named -c /etc/named.conf (yes I am running this a root) The error is Sep 9 10:40:05 linuxps named[3054

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread dhottinger
Does name own the directory? Quoting Lyle Giese : I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server. When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and write any of the zone files it downloaded. named -c /etc/named.conf (yes I am running this a roo

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread Lyle Giese
Lyle Giese wrote: I am not running named as named, but as root(no -u on command line). But in testng I did change the permissions on this directory to 777 with no change in behaviour and changed it back to 755. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread David Forrest
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server. When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and write any of the zone files it downloaded. named -c /etc/named.conf (yes I am running this a root) I had

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread Lyle Giese
David Forrest wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server. When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and write any of the zone files it downloaded. named -c /etc/named.conf (yes I am runnin

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread David Forrest
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: David Forrest wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server. When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and write any of the zone files it downloaded. name

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread Lyle Giese
David Forrest wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: David Forrest wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server. When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and write any of the zone file

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread wllarso
I'm not any sort of Linux expert but this started my mind thinking. Take a look at the BIND FAQ, it comes with the sources. There are some Linux specific comments about file and directory permissions. Bind running under Linux drops special 'root' permissions when it starts up. Also, there are s

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread Lyle Giese
wllarso wrote: > I'm not any sort of Linux expert but this started my mind thinking. > > Take a look at the BIND FAQ, it comes with the sources. There are some > Linux specific comments about file and directory permissions. Bind > running under Linux drops special 'root' permissions when it starts

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Andrews
Many Linux boxes have additional security subsystems added like SELinux and you need to comply with both the filesystem and SELinux's configuration. Also named drops root permissions. Both of these issues are documented in the faq. http://

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-11 Thread Chris Buxton
On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Lyle Giese wrote: > wllarso wrote: >> >> I'm not any sort of Linux expert but this started my mind thinking. >> >> Take a look at the BIND FAQ, it comes with the sources. There are some Linux >> specific comments about file and directory permissions. Bind running und

Re: installing on SLES 10sp3

2010-09-12 Thread Lyle Giese
Chris Buxton wrote: > On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Lyle Giese wrote: > > >> wllarso wrote: >> >>> I'm not any sort of Linux expert but this started my mind thinking. >>> >>> Take a look at the BIND FAQ, it comes with the sources. There are some >>> Linux specific comments about file and dir