[CentOS] After BIND update owner changed and restart failed

Sun Jan 11 10:10:54 UTC 2009
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I just applied the BIND updates.
> 
> Then I fixed the one file that had a second include of named.ca 
> (remembered that from last time) and did a 'service named restart', and 
> it failed.  

Never heard about someone having to apply that fix - do you have a bug entry
from bugs.centos.org or bugzilla.redhat.com handy?


> In messages I found:
>
> Jan 10 21:31:17 z9m9z named[31001]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/named.conf'
> Jan 10 21:31:17 z9m9z named[31001]: /etc/named.conf:11: open: 
> /etc/named.acl: permission denied
> Jan 10 21:31:17 z9m9z named[31001]: loading configuration: permission denied
> Jan 10 21:31:17 z9m9z named[31001]: exiting (due to fatal error)

named.acl isn't shipped by CentOS.

> Oh, I remember this from the last update...  So off to 
> /var/named/chroot/etc and do a 'chown named:named *' then named started.

The files under there belong to root:named and are 644 (except rndc.conf 
which is 640). No file there belongs to named:named. named.acl isn't shipped 
with bind.

> This apparent changing of file ownership in installing a new set of bind 
> updates so that named cannot access the files seems like something is 
> broken somewhere.

[root at shutdown etc]# rpm -q --scripts bind|grep -E "chown|chmod"
        [ -e /etc/rndc.key ] && chown root:named /etc/rndc.key
        [ -e /etc/rndc.key ] && chmod 0640 /etc/rndc.key
[root at shutdown etc]#

So where are other files ownerships changed after a bind update? If you think
you fond a bug, then please file it, but make sure that others can recreate
it.

Ralph
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