Unable to start named.service
Issue
- Named service is not starting and showing below logs
[root@named]# systemctl status named
● named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-10-01 15:15:43 EDT; 5s ago
Process: 96903 ExecStop=/bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/rndc stop > /dev/null 2>&1 || /bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCES>
Process: 97483 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -u named -c ${NAMEDCONF} $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 97479 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" == "yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z "$NAMEDCON>
Main PID: 93224 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: none:105: 'max-cache-size 90%' - setting to 14249MB (out of 15832MB)
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: configuring command channel from '/etc/rndc.key'
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: isc_stdio_open '/var/log/named/named.log' failed: permission denied <---------
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: configuring logging: permission denied
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: loading configuration: permission denied
Oct 01 15:15:43 named[97485]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Oct 01 15:15:43 systemd[1]: named.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Oct 01 15:15:43 systemd[1]: named.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 01 15:15:43 systemd[1]: Failed to start Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Bind
- selinux-policy
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