On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Ernst Fueloep wrote:

> The DNS server on my SL54 system is the primary DNS server. I have a few
> slave DNS servers set up.
>
> Yesterday, suddenly, although I have not installed any named update the
> owner of /var/named/chroot/var/named changed to root. I don't know which
> task has done this.
> I have changed it to named again and all is well now.

# rpmquery  -lv bind-chroot | grep /var/named/chroot/var/named
drwxr-x---    2 root    named               0 Sep  2 14:04 /var/named/chroot/var/named
drwxrwx---    2 named   named               0 Aug 25  2004 /var/named/chroot/var/named/data
drwxrwx---    2 named   named               0 Jul 27  2004 /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves

I've seen processed connected with SElinux resetting permissions
to match those of the package, so maybe that has something to do with it ?

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