[openSuSE 11.1] the working directory is not writable

[Chris Buxton]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Lothar Behrens wrote:
>
>> Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: starting BIND 9.5.0-P2 -t /var/
>> lib/named -u named
>
> Chrooting to /var/lib/named
>
>> Jan  9 11:55:53 vmhost named[11970]: the working directory is not
>> writable
>>
>> My working directory is /var/lib/named and the permissions ara as
>> follows:
>
> Your working directory is /var/lib/named/var/lib/named

As I recall from working with SUSE Linux in the past, that's correct,  
but it's a symlink. /var/lib/named/var/lib/named -> ../.., or  
something like that. It links back to /var/lib/named (the chroot dir  
root) itself.

This way, you can disable the chroot jail and nothing breaks. (/etc/ 
named.conf is copied into the chroot environment every time you  
(re)start named with the init script.)

Chris Buxton
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