Bug 112350

Summary: rndc dumpdb could not open dump file
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Doug Palmer <doug.palmer>
Component: bindAssignee: Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Doug Palmer 2003-12-18 06:43:18 UTC
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Description of problem:
Using rndc to produce a dump of the nameserver does not produce a 
dump file.

Command (as root): rndc dumpdb

An error appears in /var/log/messages:

named[4939]: could not open dump file: permission denied



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.2.2.P3-9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login as root
2. Enter 'rndc dumpdb'
3. tail /var/log/messages
    

Actual Results:  Nothing, other than the error message.

Expected Results:  A dump file should appear somewhere.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2003-12-29 12:26:07 UTC
The problem is that we do not want to allow named to write to the
/var/named directory, which is where the dumpfile is attempting to be
created.  You can create a subdirectory dump under /var/named or
/var/chroot/var/named and change its owner ship to named.named.  Then
modify the /etc/named.conf file to include the following option
dump-file "dump/named_dump.db";

Then it will work.

Dan

Comment 2 Doug Palmer 2003-12-29 22:28:45 UTC
Since named chroots, the dump directory needs to be under
/var/named/chroot/var/named and the /etc/named.conf files also needs
to be copied to /var/named/chroot/etc

I think that this should be fixed in the named RPM and in the
configuration tools.

Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2004-08-04 22:24:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126638 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:00:27 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.