From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 01:00:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689A8106566B for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:00:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp118.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp118.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.64.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 435FF8FC21 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:00:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 95148 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2008 01:00:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=U6Ppr/E9dI8rhns06PtU8H2n4j06gAUqr6KJjXIfUFqQWcF3ICrJQ/Bu1DPH0rKwii6/cODMr73RtNuGIUfwC6EXOtVinIe7rmP88naK6iNK3g4Y5pe+eSiFlcgyRtVKJSGcOW6uTTLwbJ+ScVnSGA4Q4XY1P97bM4Ulp+agH2M= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp118.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2008 01:00:57 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: dPSq6TkVM1kW1K4h9upzg9ssnp9f8F2BBux1A630pxKC1m.0p2PrRKUt8Rz84KZ8DI9wiMniaQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jekillen Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:59:35 -0800 To: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Cc: jekillen Subject: named questions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:00:58 -0000 Hello: I have named running as secondary server on v6.2 It will not start without a specific configuration file set on the command line. After doing some investigation it appears that that is because it runs chrooted and there is not a symlink from /etc/namedb. Is that a correct assumption? I read the man page and it specifies the default configuration file as /etc/namedb/named.conf and along with this file there are master and slave directories. Would I make the /etc/namedb/named.conf file to be a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf? There are some other entries in rc.conf related to named that appear in my primary nameserver rc.conf file that relate to getting it up at boot but I have lost root access to that machine so I cannot recover the rc.conf details and I do not remember what document- ation I was using to set it up. I was advised to start named as a user other than root but when I tried that named would not start because the user I set it to does not have write permission in the directory that has the pid file. When named starts at boot what user does it run as, by default? Thank you for any guidance. Jeff K