On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:50:16PM +0200, Mauro Calderara wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> i'm not sure whether i'm posting to the correct list but i expect the 
> most people here that have seen the problem i met:
> 
> i'm using vserver on debian woody (2.4.25-vs1.26) and Paul Sladen's 
> bind9-nocapset stuff from his page. Has anyone ever tried to run named 
> of this package as non-root user using the -u option? i get here
> 
> named: -u not supported on Linux kernels older than 2.3.99-pre3 or 
> 2.2.18 when using threads
> 
> when starting named. my options are "-u named -t /var/bind9 -c 
> /etc/bind/named.conf"
> ... it is to say that this problem occurs both inside the vserver and 
> on the host-os, i.e.  it is in fact not a vserver-problem. I still ask 
> on this list because if there are people using this package, they will 
> probably run vservers. I tested another package with the same result. 
> This was an issue 2 years ago on this mailing list but the guy with the 
> problem solved it by switching to djbdns which i'd like to avoid. Has 
> anyone seen this problem too? I have it here on 2 different machines 
> but according to google it seems not a problem for lots of people, 
> there are only few hits and no fixes or explanations i found ...
> Bertl, the good-karma-guy from #vservers on OFTC suggested i use strace 
> to investigate the problem but i was unable to find something useful. 
> maybe bind has a problem with the "vs-1.26"-part of the output ... 
> could that be? i.e. how could i hack the kernel-source to return e.g. 
> 2.4.25 instead of 2.4.25-vs1.26 ... or is that a bad idea because it'd 
> break other stuff? the strace-output is available on 
> https://limes2.dnsalias.net/namedstrace .

The following might sound funny, but I'd suggest to
give it a try:

rename the kernels version/extraversion to something
like 2.4.25 instead of 2.4.25-vs1.26 and try again,
maybe the bind9 package is just to stupid to parse
the kernel version correctly ...

(although I doubt this, and I didn't have a look at
the bind source code yet ...)

HTH,
Herbert

PS: this can be done in the toplevel Makefile ;)

> thanx in advance for any hints on how to solve the issue and have a 
> nice day everyone
> 
> Mauro
> 
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