Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:45 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot Message-ID: <02C40C21-B73C-4049-88EC-6DEF74F6A2A1@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200803202330.m2KNUpUN083945@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200803202330.m2KNUpUN083945@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I reboot. Soon, I find that bind isn't running. It runs
> as a low-priority process and is owned by bind so it needs to
> have write permission in /var/named. When I do ls -ld on
> /var/named, it's owned by root.
/var/named is owned by root on all of my newer (5.x and later)
systems; I found an old 4.11 box with it owned by bind, though. If
you're using named chroot'ed (as recommended), it will want /var/named/
var/{dump/log/run/stats} writable by bind.
--
-Chuck
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