named will not start

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ec2ct6$1stb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Matthew Connor" <connah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all. My named daemon will not start and I do not understand why.
> When I execute "/usr/sbin/named -u named", it simply returns to the
> command prompt and named is not running. Only one line gets added to
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug 17 11:19:35 pegasus kernel: audit(1155827975.705:0): avc:  denied
> { read } for  pid=3155 exe=/usr/sbin/named name=passwd dev=sda1
> ino=20483558 scontext=root:system_r:named_t
> tcontext=root:object_r:var_log_t tclass=file

My guess is a permission problem when trying to read /etc/passwd.

> 
> There results of "strace -f -qtvx -o tracedump.txt /usr/sbin/named -u
> named" can be found here:
> 
> http://www.bonniedoone.com/trace.txt

I just get an empty page.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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