All, Thanks for the response given on this. I modified the named.conf file line file "/chroot/named/logs/named.log"; to file "/logs/named.log"; Now when I restart bind, the error I get now is "logging channel 'audit_log' file '/logs/named.log' : permission denied Sorry but I'm new to BIND. Jeremy - Not sure what you mean about the mkdir -p /chroot/named/logs/ # before starting named. Can you explain a little more what I need to do? Thanks. Mark
________________________________ From: Jeremy C. Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/12/2008 3:54 PM To: Mark A. Moore Cc: bind-users@isc.org Subject: Re: Error with logging channel audit_log On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Mark A. Moore wrote: > named[25935]: logging channel 'audit_log' file '/var/log/named.log': > file not found > > The permission for named.log is a follows -rw-r--r-- root named. > > Here is a partial output of named.conf file: > > logging { > > channel default_syslog { > > // Send most of the named messages to syslog. > > syslog local2; > > severity debug; > > }; > > > channel audit_log { > > // Send the security related messages to a separate file. > > file "/chroot/named/logs/named.log"; > File name doesn't match up. But this gives me a hint that you are running named with -t for chroot. So use channel file that is within your chroot like: file "/logs/named.log"; mkdir -p /chroot/named/logs/ # before starting named