chroot no named process

[Michael Kjorling]

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What happens if you try to use BIND's internal chroot mechanism like
so?

	/usr/local/sbin/named -u named -t /opt/jail -c /var/named/named/named.conf


Michael Kjörling


On Jul 31 2001 16:17 -0700, morgan lynder wrote:

> Hello,
> I have just installed BIND 9.1.3 on solaris 7. It
> worked great. Next I decided to do a chroot
> installation. I am starting named as follows:
>
> /usr/sbin/chroot /opt/jail usr/local/sbin/named -c
> var/named/named/named.conf
>
> Now this will work and the daemon will fire up just
> fine and I can see it running as root in a ps listing.
> Now if I add the -u switch as follows:
>
> /usr/sbin/chroot /opt/jail usr/local/sbin/named -c
> var/named/named/named.conf  -u named
>
> The ps listing will not show this process,
> /var/adm/messages shows no exiting and ps will write
> to its pid file /var/run/pid too. Yet the process does
> not apear to be running anywhere. Does anyone have any
> ideas ?
>
> Thanks
> Klaus

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