From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 23:48:46 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 A5547106566C for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880498FC1D for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F24A255EAC2; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 54E1B2807E; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:46 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 1180711d-ad703bb0000008fb-81-47e2f7de27a5 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 3649228042; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <02C40C21-B73C-4049-88EC-6DEF74F6A2A1@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Martin McCormick In-Reply-To: <200803202330.m2KNUpUN083945@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:45 -0700 References: <200803202330.m2KNUpUN083945@dc.cis.okstate.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot 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, 20 Mar 2008 23:48:46 -0000 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