Glenn English said the following on 2/3/2009 3:35 PM: > I'm trying to look at the cache of my nameserver, and it keeps saying: > >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: received control channel command 'dumpdb' >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: could not open dump file 'named_dump.db': >> permission denied > > A longer pathname would be nice. I'm assuming there's a directory > missing somewhere.
While installing bind9, the output from dpkg said it wasn't going to create /var/cache/bind, so I'm assuming it must have been there already because it was there when I checked it just after the install of the bind9 package using "apt-get install bind9" > Bind9 isn't running chrooted; access to the zone files is fine, and > there's only a single copy of each of them on the computer. > > 'named_dump.db' (or any other dump.db) doesn't exist anywhere on the > computer. There's nothing in the configuration about where to put the > dump file, I'm guessing that you don't have a /var/cache/bind directory as this is what your error indicates. Mine has permissions 775 (drwxrwxr-x), owned by root and group ownership is bind. deb32:~# ls -ld /var/cache/bind drwxrwxr-x 2 root bind 4096 2009-02-03 22:53 /var/cache/bind I ran rndc dumpdb as root and the /var/cache/bind/named_dump.db file is owned by bind and group ownership is bind with permissions 644 (-rw-r--r--). My named daemon is running as user bind so even though I ran this command as root, it's the bind process & user that wrote the file to disk. deb32:~# ls -l /var/cache/bind total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind 30249 2009-02-03 22:53 named_dump.db In Debian, most application caches fall under /var/cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
