Adam Fabian wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:53:41AM -0500, Rene Rivera wrote:

The man page is wrong. It says:

      When  invoked  without arguments, named will fork into two
      processes   for   privilege   separation.    chroot()   to
      /var/named,    read   the   default   configuration   file
      /var/named/etc/named.conf, read any initial data, and lis-
      ten  for  queries.

But it took me a good hour after I posted my question, after already trying for 2 hours, to figure out that what it really means is:

      When  invoked  without the "-t" argument...

No arguments implies there is no -t option.

It also implies that giving it any option, for example -c, will cause it *not* to "fork into two processes for privilege separation". When in reality what named does is to *always* fork and chroot.

Regardless, the named behavior doesn't help my situation. What I really want are user level access controls, a constructible file system, or the ability to multi-mount filesystems. Instead of using the chroot sledgehammer.


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