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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