From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 9:33:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.clickcom.com (stargate.clickcom.com [209.198.22.4]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2EBD3E9C for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from fishbowl (dhcp1.clickcom.com [209.198.22.31]) by stargate.clickcom.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1DF366RJ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:33:23 -0500 Message-ID: <01c701bf6cda$70691b30$1f16c6d1@clickcom.com> From: "John Straiton" To: "Gene Harris" Cc: References: Subject: Re: chroot option for named Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:33:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Friend of mine pointed me to this a couple weeks ago. I found it extremely helpful. After following the directions, my named started first time, no errors. It's about the only thing I've ever done that worked out quite so easy. Should you run into more problems, it might help you out a bit. http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns/dns-openbsd/ (it covers FreeBSD as well) John ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene Harris To: Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:00 AM Subject: chroot option for named > I have been playing around with the -t option for named. > I created a testuser and testgrp along with a directory > /tmp/named to try out the options. I used the command line > named -u testuser -g testgrp -t /tmp/named. > > When I start named this way, I get an error message that > named cannot find named.conf. The only way I was able to > get the program to operate correctly was to create > /tmp/named/etc/namedb directory and then move named.conf > from the normal etc directory. > > Is this the correct behavior? Or did I make a typical > newbie mistake? :-) > > *==============================================* > *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* > *FreeBSD Novice * > *==============================================* > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message