Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:38:12 -0500: > >> I don't think you'd want a compromised named to be able to make >> changes to your authoritative DNS records, which is what could happen >> if you have permissions set that way. > > But why does named then report it right after the update? > > Jan 21 12:46:40 chacha named[16607]: the working directory is not writable I experienced same message when upgrading bind on freebsd recently. After googling, I settled down, seems that its exactly as it must be. Only that message shold be more precise and add at the end something like "... good!". -- Veiko