Re: Running BIND8 chroot on Solaris

in comp.protocols.dns.bind i read:

>I run named choort'ed from /chroot/named/usr/local/sbin   to
>/usr/local/sbin (via chroot cmd).
>The options parm is  statistics-file "/usr/local/sbin/named.stats" ;
>
>I thought named needed write permissions to /usr/local/sbin, but it turns
>out it needs permissions to /chroot/named/usr/local/sbin.
>I thought once it 'chrooted' , it'd  have nothing to do with the
>/chroot/named.... directory, but I was wrong.

of course.  *everything* done after the chroot only happens within that
directory (and below).  when you set a path in the configuration of a
chroot'd program the chroot is prefixed by the system.

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