Re: named will not start

5 msg	client.c Assertion Failure
17 msg	TXT record problem (Timed out)
2 msg	Problem with cname target pointing to wildcard ...
4 msg	multiple domains on same ip adresses
3 msg	Use of 'notify' and 'also-notify'
7 msg	MX question
9 msg	Chaining CNAMEs?
2 msg	enforced delegation only
3 msg	slow IXFR updates
1 msg	SV: rndc connection problems
7 msg	Hosting own domain - newb questions.
2 msg	rndc connection problems
8 msg	SDB Backend for Bind
1 msg	Lookup slowness after ~5 minutes
3 msg	Question about a dot in hostname
3 msg	Dynamic updates stopped working

named will not start
\ Matthew Connor (17 Aug 2006)
. \ Barry Margolin (17 Aug 2006)
. . \ jm (18 Aug 2006)

2 msg	Dual stack to IPv4 conversion
3 msg	Bind 9 allow-recursion limited to localhost
3 msg	2 A records, 2 PTR records, just 1 IP - is this...

Subject:	Re: named will not start
Group:	Bind-users
From:	jm
Date:	18 Aug 2006

Looks like selinux to me.

--jason

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <ec2ct6$1stb$1>,
> "Matthew Connor" <connah> 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.
>
>