Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:48 +0100: > > >> I wonder now if the owner of >> that directory should actually be named? >> > > Hm, after looking on other machines that have named installed but not in > use it's excactly the same there. So, if named wants write permission > there, but the rpm always removes that permission - isn't the rpm wrong > then? Should I report this as a bug? > On my system, named does not have write permission to the named directory, but it does have permission to named/data. # ll /var/named/chroot/var/ total 24 drwxr-x--- 4 root named 4096 Aug 25 2004 named drwxrwx--- 3 root named 4096 Mar 13 2003 run drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Mar 13 2003 tmp # ll /var/named/chroot/var/named/ total 16 drwxrwx--- 5 named named 4096 Sep 25 14:25 data drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Jul 27 2004 slaves Everything is working fine for me with these settings, so I don't think this is a problem. -- Bowie