[ again, but unsigned - thank you mailman ] Am Mi, den 07.04.2004 schrieb Christopher K. Johnson um 17:36: > Wouldn't it be preferable to have a subdirectory /var/named/slave that > is 770 and define the slave zone files in named.conf to be placed > there? I suspect the point of the mode 750 with root:named ownership > was to reduce the risk of a compromised named modifying master zone files. I agree and just had a look at my Fedora machine running bind (in chrooted mode) and found following directories: $ ls -ld /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves drwxr-x--- 2 named named 4096 11. Dez 15:56 /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves $ ls -ld /var/named/slaves/ drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 17. Okt 18:02 /var/named/slaves/ That are default permissions. I did not change anything. Unfortunately my bind is actually only master zone manager and I have no chance to test it running with slave zones. Feedback by others is appreciated. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 18:37:01 up 19 days, 2:18, load average: 1.45, 1.33, 1.19 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ] my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars