Hi Michael, I am not very familiar with reading strace outputs. Anyway, the following is the strace output: [root@hps-s03 root]# strace -c /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot execve("/usr/sbin/named", ["/usr/sbin/named", "-u", "named", "-t", "/var/named/chroot"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0 % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 30.38 0.000498 15 33 17 open 18.00 0.000295 18 16 read 16.17 0.000265 8 32 old_mmap 8.36 0.000137 137 1 clone 3.90 0.000064 13 5 munmap 3.78 0.000062 4 17 close 3.72 0.000061 31 2 1 connect 2.93 0.000048 3 16 fstat64 2.81 0.000046 23 2 socket 1.89 0.000031 10 3 mmap2 1.46 0.000024 3 8 futex 0.98 0.000016 4 4 brk 0.92 0.000015 3 5 fcntl64 0.73 0.000012 12 1 chroot 0.73 0.000012 2 5 rt_sigaction 0.55 0.000009 2 4 getuid32 0.31 0.000005 5 1 chdir 0.31 0.000005 3 2 capset 0.24 0.000004 4 1 setgroups32 0.24 0.000004 4 1 setuid32 0.24 0.000004 4 1 set_thread_area 0.18 0.000003 3 1 uname 0.18 0.000003 3 1 _llseek 0.18 0.000003 3 1 prctl 0.18 0.000003 2 2 rt_sigprocmask 0.18 0.000003 3 1 getrlimit 0.18 0.000003 3 1 set_tid_address 0.12 0.000002 2 1 getpid 0.12 0.000002 2 1 setgid32 ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 100.00 0.001639 169 18 total Thanks -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Kearey Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2003 6:35 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problems with named in Fedora Core-1 Hong Siew wrote: > Thanks for all your responses, still no joy, the following are from > "tail -f /var/log/messages" command: > > Starting BIND 9.2.2-P3 -u named -t /var/named/chroot > Using 1 CPU > Loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' > Named startup succeeded > No IPv6 interfaces found > Listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 > Listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 172.16.1.21#53 > Command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 > Zone aha/IN: loading master file aha.zone: file not found > Running > > Named just wouldn't find the aha.zone file. This file is definitely in > /var/named/chroot/var/named directory (double and triple checked). The > permissions are rw-r--r-- with named as the owner and group. > > Also checked the /etc/sysconfig/named to make sure > ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot. > > This thing is becoming ultra frustrating... should have stuck with RH9. Just noticed this thread. Is it at all possible to strace and what what named does on startup ? You may see some clue there. Cheers, Michael -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list