error message on NAMEDB_MAGIC inconsistency

Miek Gieben miekg at atoom.net
Fri Jan 7 08:57:03 UTC 2005


[On 07 Jan, @ 07:36, Koh-ichi wrote in "error message on NAMEDB_MAGIC  ..."]
> Hello,
> 
> I got an error message like the following:
> 
> Jan  7 12:13:52 myhost nsd[92737]: corrupted database: /var/db/nsd.db
> Jan  7 12:13:52 myhost nsd[92737]: unable to load /var/db/nsd.db: No such file or directory
> 

<SNIP>

> with the error, so to call strerror() sounds inapropriate, I
> think.
> 
> How?

yes, you're right, but I don't see a quick fix. 

namedb_open() returns NULL on error, so there is currently no
difference between a database error or a 'file not found' error.

Maybe dropping the whole log_msg() from server.c would be an idea,
and leave the error reporting in namedb_open().

grtz Miek



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