I recently upgraded with Solaris patches and after the reboot my Bind Named services go into maintenance mode.
bash-3.2# svcs -xv
svc:/network/dns/server:chroot (?)
State: maintenance since Thu Nov 01 00:22:19 2012
Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 1.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
See: man -M /usr/man -s 1M named
See: /var/svc/log/network-dns-server:chroot.log
Impact: This service is not running.
Output from var/svc/log/network-dns-server:chroot.log below
[ Nov 1 00:22:19 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/dns-server start chroot") ] dns-server: Executing: named -t /var/named/chroot/named -c /etc/named.conf /lib/svc/method/dns-server: named: cannot execute dns-server : start failed! Check syslog for further information. [ Nov 1 00:22:19 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]
As stated I can run named -t /var/named/chroot/named -c /etc/named.conf manually from root and the named process starts and DNS works.
I assume this has something to do with permissions/file ownership or something like that. I have tried changing (chown/chgrp)the /var/named/chroot/named directory to root root and named root. I also did the same with the /var/named/chroot/named/named binary. I also tried the same types of things with the /etc/named.conf file. So far no luck.
Any suggestions on how to figure this out would be greatly appreciated.
