From: Thomas C. <tho...@ca...> - 2006-05-23 06:07:09
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Jamie Cameron wrote: > On 22/May/2006 22:35 Thomas Cameron wrote .. > >> Howdy All - >> >> I did a cursory search and didn't find anyone else who has run into >> this, forgive me if this has already been discussed. >> >> I am running webmin-1.270-1 installed from RPM on a RHEL 4 AS i386 >> server. The server is up to date as of today. It has >> caching-nameserver-7.3-3, bind-libs-9.2.4-2, bind-chroot-9.2.4-2, >> bind-9.2.4-2 and bind-utils-9.2.4-2 installed. When I create DNS zone >> files, they are created as expected in /var/named/chroot/var/named. >> However, the /etc/named.conf file is configured by webmin to look for >> the files under /var/named. The other zones files in >> /var/named/chroot/var/named are symlinked to /var/named, but webmin does >> not create the appropriate symlinks for those files it creates. >> >> Is this a webmin bug? >> > > Maybe :) > Is it really necessary to create synlinks from /var/named to the chroot > directory? Honestly, I would think that sort of negates the whole point of chroot anyway. Not sure what the logic behind that is. > Normally when BIND is run in a chroot environment, it will always > look for named.conf and the zone files under /var/named/chroot , meaning that > the files under /var/named are never accessed directly. Makes sense, but in my case it was not working until I created the symlinks. > So Webmin doesn't > bother to create then .. > > - Jamie OK. I will poke around and see if there was something knuckle-headed I did and just don't realize it. Thanks! TC PS - Jamie, are you Clan Cameron of Lochiel? |