From: "Matt Brown" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "Cobalt List" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [cobalt-security] RE: was Anyone else get this error? [couldn't
create pid file] **SOLVED** (revised)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:32:51 -0000
Sorry to re-post, but omitted a couple of small details.
This should now be correct.
--
So here is what I did .....
(This has only been tested only on a RaQ4i and worked fine, use this info
at
your own risk)
Open a SSH/Telnet session to your RaQ4i.
$ su - root
$ cd /var/run
$ rm named.pid
$ mkdir named
$ chown named.named named
# Now we have somewhere (/var/named) that user named can create his .pid
# file
# Now we would need to edit /etc/named.conf to add the line:
# pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid"
# But because the /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi file
re-creates
# /etc/named.conf each time a domain is added via the GUI/Admin Interface,
# the contents of /etc/named.conf get overwritten and so you are back to
# square one !
# The way to fix this is, is as so:
$ cd /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/
$ cp index.cgi index.bak
$ vi index.cgi
# Find the following line:
my $Named_pid = '/var/run/named.pid';
# And change to:
my $Named_pid = '/var/run/named/named.pid';
# Then find the section that looks like this:
if ($axs )
{
print NAMEDCONF "\tallow-transfer { $axs; };\n";
}
# Directly under the last curly bracket, add this line:
print NAMEDCONF "\tpid-file \"/var/run/named/named.pid\";\n";
# Save and close index.cgi ( :wq )
# Next we need to refresh the named.conf automatically the cobalt way
$ /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi
# If all goes well, you should see the message:
[DNS Configuration updated]
That's it, your done !
Your nameserver should have reloaded automatically, if not ....
/etc.rc.d/init.d/named reload
*N.B* Remember as with all cobalt updates (generally) they have a habit of
resetting/overwriting/updating certain files, Make backups of all files
before editing, and keep a copy safe for future cobalt overwrites so you
can
add the fix back in (unless the fix fixes it).
I hope this fix helps someone else.
Regards
Matt Brown
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