Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 116201
/var/named/chroot/dev/random has wrong minor number
Last modified: 2012-10-05 05:21:10 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.11 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030417 Description of problem: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/random crw-r----- 1 root named 1, 9 Feb 2 13:09 /var/named/chroot/dev/random service named start gives syslog message: named[9279]: could not open entropy source /dev/random: permission denied Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.2.2.P3-9 bind-chroot-9.2.2.P3-9 bind-9.2.2.P3-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.service named start 2.view syslog (might need debug level syslog config) 3. Additional info:
Adding a new /var/named/chroot/dev/random with minor number 8 (using mknod) does not get rid of the syslog message at named startup.
/dev/random has the wrong owenership it should be crw-r----- 1 root named 1, 9 Mar 24 09:46 random
Looks right in bind-9.2.3-9
dwalsh@redhat.com wrote: > /dev/random has the wrong owenership it should be > crw-r----- 1 root named 1, 9 Mar 24 09:46 random Surely you don't mean that? Those ownerships and permissions might be suitable for the __chroot'ed__ dev/random used by named, but not for /dev/random itself.
Yes I meand /var/named/chroot/dev/random. Sorry about that.
Apologies for the long delay. I've recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 (bind-chroot-9.2.3-13), with the following result: ls -l /var/named/chroot/dev total 0 -rw-r----- 1 root named 0 Mar 25 2003 null -rw-r----- 1 root named 0 Mar 14 2003 random Ownerships look reasonable. Permissions might be OK although I would have expected at least g+w on null. However, both files are now ordinary files, not devices. Surely that can't be right?
This was fixed in bind-9.2.4rc6-6 (Latest version bind-9.2.4rc7-10).
(In reply to comment #7) > This was fixed in bind-9.2.4rc6-6 (Latest version bind-9.2.4rc7-10). With bind9-9.7.3.df same problem today; seems solved setting group 'bind' (not worked with 'named') ll /var/bind9/chroot/dev total 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Oct 5 09:09 log crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 5 02:21 null crw-rw---- 1 root bind 1, 8 Oct 5 02:21 random