named will not start

jm jm at hcn.com.au
Fri Aug 18 00:10:09 UTC 2006


Looks like selinux to me.

--jason

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <ec2ct6$1stb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Matthew Connor" <connah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all. My named daemon will not start and I do not understand why.
>> When I execute "/usr/sbin/named -u named", it simply returns to the
>> command prompt and named is not running. Only one line gets added to
>> /var/log/messages:
>>
>> Aug 17 11:19:35 pegasus kernel: audit(1155827975.705:0): avc:  denied
>> { read } for  pid=3155 exe=/usr/sbin/named name=passwd dev=sda1
>> ino=20483558 scontext=root:system_r:named_t
>> tcontext=root:object_r:var_log_t tclass=file
>>     
>
> My guess is a permission problem when trying to read /etc/passwd.
>
>   
>> There results of "strace -f -qtvx -o tracedump.txt /usr/sbin/named -u
>> named" can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.bonniedoone.com/trace.txt
>>     
>
> I just get an empty page.
>
>   



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