Subject: Re: [vserver] Some issue related to Bind9
From: Bruno <bonbons67@internet.lu>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:10:12 +0100

On Sat, 10 January 2009 Gustavo wrote:
> I'm using debian etch (stable) with the packages up to date. Kernel is
> 2.6.18 (2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 exactly). libcap1 is installed on both
> vserver host and guest machine I'm trying to configure bind9 to (and
> where I built up deb packages for bind9 without capabilities). libcap
> version is 1.10, there's not another available on etch (libcap2 is
> only for testing and unstable branches yet).
> 
> The only thing I find from what you said is libcap is older than
> needed but have no easy ways to correct that. It's strange libcap1 is
> responsible for this to doesn't work.

With a kernel that old the libcap-1 is fine (libcap-2 is especially for
kernels starting from 2.6.24, when file-based capabilities were
introduced)

Did you try running bind as root in your guest (e.g. so it does not try
do chuid() or chgid()? That way it might not attempt to touch the
capabilities...

Bruno


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