Turne out to be a dumdum mistake on my part. SELinux was set to enforce…set it to permissive and voila! the .jnl file was created.
I coulda sworn I’d fixed that before... > On Mar 5, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Grant Taylor via bind-users > <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > > On 3/5/21 12:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Fixing the permissions and restarting named got dynamic updating working >> again, but new systems (ie names that are NOT already in the Zone file ) are >> throwing errors about the journal file: error: journal open failed: >> unexpected error > > It seems like you still have a permissions error. > > Can the user that named is running as create new files in the directory where > the zone is stored? > >> Is there a specific command to create the .jnl file? I thought named created >> it automatically as needed. (at least the named-journalprint man page >> indicates this…) > > I don't remember ever needing to manually create a journal (.jnl) file. I > think that named always did it. > > Named will create, modify, and remove the journal file as needed. rndc > freeze will sync the in memory zone contents to the journal file. rndc sync > will sync the journal file to the main zone file. The -clean option to rndc > sync will remove the journal file. -- Don't forget to rndc thaw a frozen > zone to start allowing dynamic updates again. > > Beyond that, I've not needed to worry about the journal file or it's contents. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
