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keep in mind: chroot

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

My colleague catch a fail - he try to start chroot-ed bind and put named.conf into /etc/named instead /chroot/etc/named
To take notes.
Tags:linux

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MySQL fail to start: “Can`t read dir of /root/tmp/”

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

I’ve got theis error:
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can’t read dir of ‘/root/tmp/’
Simply, trite, but hard to guess:
$TMPDIR had value /root.
How to fix:
export TMPDIR=/tmp/
I added this into /etc/init.d/mysql
Tags:linux mysql

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DNS HOWTO - rulez!

Friday, January 5th, 2007

I had to correct server having very strange and incomprehensible configured bind (named). Starting with uncommon serial number for zones and timeouts adn ending with absence 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa zone and chronic errors like
Got SERVFAIL reply from 127.0.0.1, trying next server
during some of zones resolving.
Tags:internet linux network

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