Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:56:17 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot Message-ID: <200803210056.m2L0uHpH002127@m.it.okstate.edu>
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Chuck Swiger writes:
>/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.
That's pretty much what I have. the log files and all
are in /var/named and everything works perfectly if I manually
reset the ownership back to bind for the entire tree starting at
/var/named.
I started seeing the behavior after FreeBSD5 and I did
in fact tell the configuration script of the bind port to chroot
since that is recommended. I thought that should tell the
process to assume the UID of bind and to chroot with /var/named
being the root directory.
Thanks to you and one other responder, I will have
another look at the defaults and see if there is anything I can
change. I seem to have unwittingly got some systems set up right
and others set up to chown root:wheel /var/named.
Martin McCormick
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