[Bug 548885] Re: ntp host name not found error

[Mike Kupfer]

After enabling NTP this morning, I noticed very similar messages to the
above in my syslog.

Mar 13 09:16:23 assam kernel: [  927.068998] type=1503 audit(1300032983.633:25):  operation="open" pid=2184 parent=1 profile="/usr/sbin/ntpd" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" fsuid=0 ouid=0 name="/etc/resolv.conf.rawbw"
Mar 13 09:16:23 assam kernel: [  927.069297] type=1503 audit(1300032983.633:26):  operation="open" pid=2184 parent=1 profile="/usr/sbin/ntpd" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" fsuid=0 ouid=0 name="/etc/resolv.conf.rawbw"
Mar 13 09:16:25 assam ntpd_initres[2186]: host name not found: ntp.rawbw.com
Mar 13 09:16:25 assam ntpd_initres[2186]: host name not found: ntp.ubuntu.com

I had /etc/resolv.conf as a symlink pointing to resolv.conf.rawbw  After
deleting the symlink and copying /etc/resolv.conf.rawbw to
/etc/resolv.conf, I restarted ntpd (using "/etc/init.d/ntp stop" and
"/etc/init.d/ntp start").  This time I didn't get the error messages.

The permissions on /etc/resolv.conf.rawbw are

  -rw-r--r--   1 root    root       80 Mar 13 09:01 resolv.conf.rawbw

so it's not a problem with the file permissions.  dig(1) and everything
else worked just fine when /etc/resolv.conf was a symlink.  Why is it a
problem for ntpd?

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Title:
  ntp host name not found error