Re: [webmin-l] RHEL 4 named issues

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

On 23/May/2006 01:06 Thomas Cameron wrote ..
> 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.

What went wrong exactly?
If the zone files were missing from BIND's point of view, you would have gotten
errors in /var/log/messages saying so when it was started..

> > 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?

No idea - the Camerons in my family emigrated to australia several
generations back..

 - Jamie