Re: how to check bind9 chroot

["J.J. van Gorkum" <job@knowzone.org>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 18:53, Costas Magkos wrote:
[...]
> Is there a way to test whether a chroot works? Does anyone know if the 
> above syslog option is really needed? According to the man page of 
> syslog it is needed.

use lsof

# lsof -p [pid number of bind process]

check:

- if the loaded libraries is in the chroot (by cheking the path and/or
the inode)
- if std in/out and err are connected inside the chroot to /dev/null
- there is only one socket to syslog (in the real world)

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JJ van Gorkum                             Knowledge Zone
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