Ok. I found the answer myself. User named must be able to write to /var/named What would be the right thing ? Leting named own /var/named or having named be member of group wheel and have write permission on group wheel ?
I am thinking of security here. /Hasse Hans Almqvist wrote:
Hi all! I am running OpenBSD 3.6 on i386 system. When starting named I get the fallowing in my log. named[2541]: starting BIND 9.2.3 -t /var/named -u named -d 3 named[2541]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 named[2541]: command channel listening on ::1#953 named[2541]: isc_log_open 'named.run' failed: permission denied <<<<< If I then try to do a # rndc dumpdb I get : named[2541]: could not open dump file: permission denied There seem to be a permission problem somehow but I can't figure out where. I have read that the named_dump.db file should appear in /var/named Here is the permission on /var/named vindfallan# pwd /var/named vindfallan# ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Jan 30 2005 . /Hasse
