can't exec /usr/sbin/named-xfer: Permission denied

[Brian Elliott Finley]

Thus spake Jim Reid (jim at rfc1035.com):

> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Elliott Finley <brian at thefinleys.com> writes:
> 
>     Brian> named works fine, but named-xfer consistently farts with
>     Brian> this message:
> 
>     Brian>  "can't exec /usr/sbin/named-xfer: Permission denied"
> 
> 
>     Brian> named is started with this command:
> 
>     Brian>  "/usr/sbin/named -d 3 -u bind -g bind -t /chrootd/bind"
> 
>     Brian> What am I missing?
> 
> Try making sure /usr/bin/named-xfer lives in you chroot jail

$ ls -l /chrootd/bind/usr/sbin/named-xfer 
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       203004 Nov 11 17:11 /chrootd/bind/usr/sbin/named-xfer

> and has
> sufficient execute permission for the uid bind. 

Yup.

> And make sure that
> named-xfer has proper access permissions to write any zone files it
> transfers into the chroot jail.

I've even tried doing a "chown -R bind.bind /chrootd/bind/*" to be
sure...

Same error.

-Brian





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