From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 16:18:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.valhalla.net (tethys.valhalla.net [195.26.32.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC1037B729 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@tethys.valhalla.net) Received: by tethys.valhalla.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 602BA32E7E; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:18:12 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:18:12 +0100 From: Mark Drayton To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS primary, secondary question Message-ID: <20010405001812.A4336@tethys.valhalla.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010404151623.A9882@tethys.valhalla.net> <3ACB7FF0.A0497039@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ACB7FF0.A0497039@hotmail.com>; from cckok00@hotmail.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:11:28PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Kok (cckok00@hotmail.com) wrote: > I also have the Secondary name server question: > the var/log/message is found in the following messages > > Apr 5 04:13:29 dns2 named: named startup succeeded > Apr 5 04:13:29 dns2 named[5453]: group = 25 > Apr 5 04:13:29 dns2 named[5453]: user = named > Apr 5 04:13:29 dns2 named[5453]: Ready to answer queries. > Apr 5 04:13:36 dns2 named[5453]: secondary zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" expired > Apr 5 04:13:36 dns2 named[5453]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) > Apr 5 04:13:36 dns2 named-xfer[5457]: can't make tmpfile (/var/named/db.192.168.0.HABHfi): Permission denied > Apr 5 04:13:43 dns2 named[5453]: secondary zone "akc.com" expired > Apr 5 04:13:43 dns2 named[5453]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0) > Apr 5 04:13:43 dns2 named-xfer[5458]: can't make tmpfile (/var/named/db.akc.com.JdEOJz): Permission denied > > What is the meaning of? > > Apr 5 04:13:36 dns2 named-xfer[5457]: can't make tmpfile > (/var/named/db.192.168 > .0.HABHfi): Permission denied > Apr 5 04:13:43 dns2 named-xfer[5458]: can't make tmpfile > (/var/named/db.akc. > com.JdEOJz): Permission denied This is because the named user ('named' in your case) doesn't have write permission on /var/named. It needs to write the zone information it transferred from the primary nameserver into this directory. Try chown named /var/named Hope this helps, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message