Re: using Webmin with a chrooted bind 9

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Tom Wiebe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get up and running with webmin and bind 9.2.1, which I run 
> in a chrooted environment on FreeBSD 4.6. I've got Bind working fine on it'
> s own, but can't control it with Webmin.
> 
> On the module config page I've got my chroot directory (/var/chroot/named)
>  and my Bind user (bind) specified, but when I start bind through webmin 
> I get the following error:
> 
> Failed to start BIND : usage: named [-c conffile] [-d debuglevel] 
> [-f|-g] [-n number_of_cpus] [-p port] [-s] [-t chrootdir] [-u username] 
> named: extra command line arguments
> 
> Any pointers? Have searched the archives but haven't found anything that 
> looked like a cure.


It doesn't look like your named command supports the -g option for specifying
a group to run as.. Try setting the 'Group to start BIND as' option in the
module config back to 'Default', and seeing if that helps.

  - Jamie