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Cc: Prokofyev Vladislav <v.prokofyev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found
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On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:50:31 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote:

> Bind9 started in chroot:
>
> root      788    0.0  0.1  3156  1004  ??  Ss   Fri01AM   0:02.10
> /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s
> bind    30792  0.0  1.2 16212 12864  ??  Is    4:10PM   0:00.23
> /usr/sbin/named -t /var/named -u bind
>
>
> Configuration of logging channels from named.conf:
>
> logging
> {
>
>     channel "xfer"
> {
>
>         file "/var/named/var/log/xfer.log" versions 3 size
> 10m;

The named running chrooted has no clue about /var/named. You can either use 
ducttape:
cd /var/named/var && sudo ln -s .. named

or just strip /var/named from your config file, hence use /var/log/xfer.log.

-- 
Mel