Problems with named in Fedora Core-1

[Michael Kearey]

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