Problems Chrooting under Bind 9

[Cricket Liu]

Bill Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to start up named using
> 
> named -u named -g named -t /usr/local/etc.  That results in the
> message below
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/named -u named -g named -t /usr/local/etc
> usage: named [-c conffile] [-d debuglevel] [-f|-g] [-n number_of_cpus]
>              [-p port] [-s] [-t chrootdir] [-u username]
> named: extra command line arguments

As the usage line suggests, the -g option doesn't take an option argument.
Back in BIND 8, -g specified the group name.  Now the name server
changes group to the primary group of the user specified with -u.

> I then try starting it w/out the -g flag and the following error is
> log to messages on my system
> 
> Nov  2 17:20:59 bind9 named[498]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] starting
> BIND 
> 9.2.1
> -u named -t /usr/local/etc
> Nov  2 17:20:59 bind9 named[498]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] none:0:
> open: /usr/lo
> cal/etc/named.conf: file not found
> 
> The questions I have is why doesn't the -g work in the first example.
> How come named won't start when I just use -u and -t flags.
> /usr/local/etc is where all config, etc files are located so not sure
> why it's complaining there.

Are you sure you have a named.conf file in /usr/local/etc/named.conf?
Did you recompile named to expect named.conf in /usr/local/etc/named.conf?
If you did, and you're also using -t, it's looking in
/usr/local/etc/usr/local/etc/named.conf.

cricket

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