On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 19:07, Hong Siew wrote: > 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 Perhaps try it without the -c, whch will give you a better indication of the progress of the execution. Eg. if named is trying to open a file that is not correctly chrooted, it should be clear from the strace output. Cheers, Ben -- .O. Ben Stringer ..O ben@xxxxxxxxxxx OOO linux|java|majitek|gnu