Re: [Debian-sf-users] More CVS anamalies.

[Roland Mas]

Tim Uckun (2002-02-27 16:14:41 -0700) :

> First of all I would like to know if the debian-sf maintainers would
> prefer to hear about these things on the listserve or if they would
> rather have me submit them as bugs.

  It's not that important, but if the bug exists in a released version
of the package (i.e. the one currently present in Debian testing or
unstable), I think it's worth a bug report in the Debian BTS, so that
we can keep track of it.

> Apparently something, someplace (maybe a cron job?) resets the
> permissions on the cvs directories. Maybe this would not be so bad
> but it seems to cripple CVS access for developers.

  Hm.  Strange.  I'll investigate it right away.

[...]

> Also something is pretty wrong with the name service.
> /etc/init.d/bind9 stop fails. apparently namedrndc can not find a
> key or something. I found a post on google and fixed it like this.

  Ah, but this is due to a misconfiguration of your Bind.  I was hit
by that problem too.  Basically, Bind uses a system of publib/private
key to authenticate the control requests it receives from rndc.  In
the Debian package, I think you can just cut and paste the key from
one file to another in /etc/bind/ (if I remember it correctly).

> There is a /etc/rndc.conf which is a symlink to /etc/bind/rndc.conf
> delete the symlink.
> rename /etc/bind/rndc.conf to something else.
> if there is no /etc/bind/rndc.key you need to create one by running
> rndc-confgen -a

  That would probably be the real solution.

  Thanks,
Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

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