chroot /var/run permissions

Carsten Strotmann cas at strotmann.de
Wed Aug 28 07:34:37 UTC 2013


Hello John,

johnh at primebuchholz.com writes:

>
> What I am I missing here?  /var/named/var/run and
> /var/named/var/run/named 
> have group write permissions, so it seems it *shouldn't* be
> complaining, 
> and the resulting files should've been owned by named, shouldn't they?
>

If you are running BIND on some flavor of Linux with SELinux enabled,
you might need to adjust the SELinux ruleset (recommended) or disable
SELinux (not-recommended). SELinux can prevent "named" from writing
files, even if the file-system permissions look correct.

-- Carsten



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