[afnog] Bind failed to start

Chris Wilson chris+afnog at aptivate.org
Tue Jul 2 15:38:52 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Ryta Kashemire wrote:

> Before i did Online updates, i checked the system and named was running 
> perfectly (i restarted it and it was running ok), but after the online 
> updates that’s the error i get so am quite sure no one tampered with the 
> system.

Before you come to that conclusion, you might want to investigate what the 
actual problem is:

>       Jul  2 14:19:13 dns1-svr-celtel named[2676]: isc_stdio_open 
> '/var/log/named/named.log' failed: file not found
> 
> This is the error. So why is the file not found? What has changed? Did 
> someone delete that directory, or turn on chroot in your bind 
> configuration without creating the necessary directories under the 
> chroot root directory?

Cheers, Chris.
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