[Samba] Can't provision with BIND9_DLZ [SOLVED]

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Sun Jun 2 13:03:33 MDT 2013


On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 23:31 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:34 +0200, steve wrote:
> > Version 4.0.7-GIT-d4cd828
> > openSUSE 12.04 with bind9 installed but not configured.
> > 
> > Hi
> > Attempting to provision with BIND9_DLZ or samba_upgradedns from a
> > functioning SAMBA_INTERNAL install produces:
> > 
> > Creating DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones partitions
> > Populating DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones partitions
> > Failed to setup database for BIND, AD based DNS cannot be used
> > ERROR(<type 'exceptions.OSError'>): uncaught exception - [Errno 2] No
> > such file or directory
> 
> >   File
> > "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/tdb_util.py", line
> > 36, in tdb_copy
> >     status = subprocess.call(tdbbackup_cmd, close_fds=True, shell=False)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 493, in call
> >     return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
> >     errread, errwrite)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in
> > _execute_child
> >     raise child_exception
> > 
> > Same with 4.0.6 on the same box. What have I done wrong?
> > Thanks
> 
> What has happened here is that your OS has the right version of libtdb,
> but hasn't supplied the tdb tools - tdbbackup in this case, which we use
> to prepare the databases for the DNS server.  Find the OS package for
> that, and install it.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

Hi
Thanks. Actually, I did have the tdbtools installed, but openSUSE in
their wisdom, chose not to put them in the PATH. A symlink:
ln -s /usr/bin/tdbbackup /usr/lib/mit/sbin
did it.

Sorry, I know it's bad list netiquette not to post the solution. I
should have done this before.
Cheers,
Steve




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