[Dnsmasq-discuss] failed to read symlink-files added by `list addnhosts '/etc/safe-search/enabled'`

Eric Fahlgren ericfahlgren at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 20:19:37 UTC 2022


I can't imagine that dnsmasq would even know that the file it was opening
was a symlink.  I'd suspect ownership or permissions.  The dnsmasq process
in OpenWrt is run as the 'dnsmasq' user, so maybe 'chown dnsmasq:dnsmasq
/etc/safe-search/enabled/*' or some variant would resolve your issue.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 7:05 PM Gordon Shawn <capcoding at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the newest openwrt I installed 'safe-search' which has a few files
> under /etc/safe-search/available/ and they're symlinked to
> /etc/safe-search/enable/ by choice.
>
> dnsmasq reports it failed to load those symlinks under enable/
>
> if I remove the symlinks, and copy the real files over from available/,
> dnsmasq read them all and works fine.
>
> can dnsmasq read addn-hosts files when they're symbolic links?
>
> Thanks,
> Gordon
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