Bug 559118 – net-dns/bind-9.10.2_p3: couldn't mkdir '/var/run/named': Permission denied

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexey Sychev 2015-08-29 19:00:38 UTC]

named can not create /var/run/named directory at start because of permissions problem

Reproducible: Always




journalctl -b -u named:

Aug 29 21:29:33 gentoo named[581]: couldn't mkdir '/var/run/named': Permission denied
Aug 29 21:29:33 gentoo named[581]: generating session key for dynamic DNS
Aug 29 21:29:33 gentoo named[581]: couldn't mkdir '/var/run/named': Permission denied
Aug 29 21:29:33 gentoo named[581]: could not create /var/run/named/session.key
Aug 29 21:29:33 gentoo named[581]: failed to generate session key for dynamic DNS: permission denied

If I create /var/run/named by hand - no errors in log:

gentoo ~ # mkdir /var/run/named
gentoo ~ # chown named /var/run/named
gentoo ~ # systemctl start named
gentoo ~ # ls -la /var/run/named
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 named root   80 Aug 29 21:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root  root  480 Aug 29 21:58 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 named named   4 Aug 29 21:58 named.pid
-rw-------  1 named named 102 Aug 29 21:58 session.key

[Comment 1 Alexey Sychev 2015-08-29 19:47:48 UTC]

emerge --info bind: http://pastebin.ca/3137408

[Comment 2 Alexey Sychev 2015-10-03 22:59:54 UTC]

No fix?

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2015-10-04 08:29:31 UTC]

[master 7f2d82c] net-dns/bind: Install missing tmpfiles.d file (#559118 by Alexey Sychev)
 2 files changed, 409 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 net-dns/bind/bind-9.10.2_p4-r1.ebuild
 create mode 100644 net-dns/bind/files/named.conf