From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 13:46:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93C81065689 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:46:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359028FC41 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from localhost by koef.zs64.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m81DVhEg087421 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:31:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) (authenticated as stb) Message-Id: <9B5F3198-4C3E-4FDE-B9BC-2C67B0B82CEC@lassitu.de> From: Stefan Bethke To: Alex Goncharov In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:31:37 +0200 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named mystery -- error: dumping master file: master/tmp-wTjhUzoix6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:46:30 -0000 Am 01.09.2008 um 14:34 schrieb Alex Goncharov: > For quite a while I've been trying to understand how to work around > this little annoyance: named periodically writes > > dumping master file: master/tmp-dnbiuWrKNQ: open: permission denied > > to `/var/log/message'. > > Sure, I thought -- out of the box the `master' directory doesn't give > write permission to user bind Why is named trying to dump a master zone? The root ownership is intentional: since named is only serving these zones, not receiving or updating them, the files are not writeable by the bind user. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140