I have just installed RHEL 6 and installed bind-chroot via yum.

I am trying to configure everything to match our old servers. Everything seems find except I keep receiving the following error in /var/log/messages:

Jun 27 12:28:54 intns1 named[13175]: the working directory is not writable

In the bind log I am also seeing:


27-Jun-2011 12:30:00.979 general: error: dumping master file: tmp-mpFV9Kjw1k: open: permission denied


Which I am assuming is because the working dir is not writeable.


Why working directory is set:

options {
directory "/var/named/data";

It seems to be writable:

drwxrwx---. 2 named named 4096 May 27 06:38 data



Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

If you have installed bind-chroot, then in your case the working directory is /var/named/chroot/var/named/data.
The 1st part (/var/named/chroot) is the jail under which named operates and the 2nd (/var/named/data) is the one defined by the "directory" option in named.conf
Take a look at this howto for details

Regards

I understand what your saying, but since bind is running in the chroot it only needs the "2nd" part correct?

For example I am using /var/named/chroot as the jail, and /var/named/data as the working directory.

drwxrwx---. 2 named named 4096 Jun 27 11:53 /var/named/chroot/var/named/data

But it still says its not writable.

Then I guess it's SELinux
I'm not running RHEL, but I guess
should work.
You may take a look here for details.

Regards

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Thanks a million, it turned out it was selinux. I should have thought of that.

I used audit2allow to create a policy from the audit log, now everything is working correctly.

By default SELinux on RH only allows writing to the slave directory.