Help on bind in chroot: "daemon: No such file or directory"

[Ronan Flood]

rnaheed at nvek.com (Doobster) wrote:

> I have been trying to get this work for over a week.  My setup works
> outside of the chroot jail, but I constantly, no matter what I do,
> receive the "daemon: No such file or directory" error.
> 
> My chroot is /var/named/chroot and I am starting named with 
> /var/named/chroot/usr/sbin/named -u named -g named -d 9 -t
> /var/named/chroot

> Sep 23 01:10:06 kataan named[31111]: daemon: No such file or directory

I think that's where it goes into the background and opens /dev/null.
Have you created the directory /var/named/chroot/dev and used mknod
to create /var/named/chroot/dev/null identical to /dev/null ?

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