Parallels

Symptoms

Bind service (named) cannot be started. Starting script reports the following error:

~# /etc/init.d/named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:6: change directory to '/var/named' failed: file not found
/etc/named.conf:6: parsing failed
                                                           [FAILED]
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Directory /var/named exists and has permissions 755. What may cause the problem and how to resolve it?

Cause

Incorrect jail is specified in named configuration.  

Resolution

Change the directory directive in named configuration file /etc/named.conf to /var.

options {
        allow-recursion {
                localnets;
        };
        directory "/var";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
};

and copy file rndc.conf from it current location to location inside the new jailed environment: /var/named/run-root

~# ls -l /var/named/run-root/etc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   480 Jan 23  2002 rndc.conf
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