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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2001 06:57:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com>
To:        <bind9-bugs@isc.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <bmbintz@wam.umd.edu>, <delauder@newc.com>
Subject:   Config File not found !!! ??? -- HELP
Message-ID:  <20010914063833.N57875-100000@p6m7g8.student.umd.edu>

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With bind-9.1.3 and FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0 i386, I am getting a very very odd
error.  This is my first time using bind 8.x|9.x.  Anyone have any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.

As root or on reboot
/usr/home/src/named/sbin/named -c /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/named.conf -u
bind -t /usr/home/src/named/sandbox

snippet of /var/log/messages
Sep 14 06:53:19 drunken /usr/home/src/named/sbin/named[7608]: starting BIND
9.1.3 -c /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/named.conf -u bind -t
/usr/home/src/named/sandbox
Sep 14 06:53:19 drunken /usr/home/src/named/sbin/named[7608]:
/usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/named.conf: open: file not found
Sep 14 06:53:19 drunken /usr/home/src/named/sbin/named[7608]: loading
configuration: file not found
Sep 14 06:53:19 drunken /usr/home/src/named/sbin/named[7608]: exiting (due to
fatal error)

quick sanity check
ls -l /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/named.conf
-rwxr-x---  1 bind  bind  - 3349 Sep 14 05:58 /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/named.conf*

./configure --prefix=/usr/home/src/named --with-openssl=/usr/home/src/openssl
--with-randomdev=/dev/random --enable-threads --with-libtool --with-gnu-ld
make
su
make install

mkdir -p /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/var/run
mkdir -p /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc
cp /etc/namedb /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc
cp /etc/localtime /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc
cd /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc
sh make-localhost

edit named.conf
directory "/etc/namedb" => directory "/usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/

chown -R bind:bind /usr/home/src/named/sandbox
chmod -R 750 /usr/home/src/named/sandbox

edit /etc/resolv.conf
add
nameserver 		127.0.0.1

edit /etc/rc.conf
add
named_enable="YES"
named_program="/usr/home/src/named/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /usr/home/src/named/sandbox/etc/named.conf -u bind -t /usr/home/src/named/sandbox"


snippit of /etc/master.passwd
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin

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