bind “the working directory is not writable”
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/21
I didn’t notice this bind change for a while, but some time ago after doing an rcnamed restart it would split out this error message:
It seems harmless as BIND still starts:
Starting name server BIND ..done
Anyway, some links that helped me solve it:
- DNS/BIND Issue: “named: the working directory is not writable” | Slaptijack [no WayBack]
- named: the working directory is not writable | The FreeBSD Forums [WayBack]
- Re: [opensuse] bind: the working directory is not writable [WayBack]
The last entry provides the solution:
rcnamed stop
chown named:named /var/lib/named/ -R
rcnamed start
rcnamed status
The latter didn’t show any error message.
–jeroen
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