Re: named: can't change directory

[Håkan Olsson <ho@openbsd.org>]

Hi.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Kim Culhan wrote:
> 
> Installed named 8.2.2-P6 from ports and it returns this message at
> boot:
> 
> named[22240]: can't change directory to /var/named: no such file or directory
> 
> Apparently I don't have named setup to run correctly in the chroot'd
> environment at /var/named..
> 
> Any help here is greatly appreciated.
> 
> -kim
> 
> --
> openbsd@kim.net

Hi.

My guess is that you have

  options {
    directory "/var/named";
    ...
  };

in you named.conf file.

As 'named' by default chroot()-s to /var/named, the correct configuration
here is simply
   
  options {
    directory "/";
    ...
  };

as "/var/named" is now just "/" when we're chroot()-ed.

Please take a look at /var/named/named.conf.sample as it contains this and
other hints of a (as we consider it) good named configuration.

Regards,
  Håkan.

PS. For some more info on chroot; read the manual pages, section 2 and 8.

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