Nothing goes to syslog when I chroot

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Dec 8 19:17:20 UTC 2000


On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:08:33PM +0100, Morten Hansen wrote:
> I am using bind version 8.2.2p7.
> 
> I start bind like this : named -u named -t /usr/local/bind
> 
> Everything works fine, but there is no logging to syslog. Why ?
> 
> br, Morten

You don't say which OS you are using.  You may be using one which talks
to 'syslogd' via a named pipe.  If that named pipe, or a copy of it, is
not under the chroot'ed directory, then no logging would take place.

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