Here are a set of steps I wrote about setting named-chroot in FC18:
# Steps to set up a named in a chroot environment in FC18
# Install the packages
yum install bind bind-chroot
# Enable chroot environment
# Note: This is a significant change (in FC18)/(relating to systemd)
/usr/libexec/setup-named-chroot.sh /var/named/chroot on
# Check chroot environment
ls -l /var/named/chroot/etc /var/named/chroot/var/named
# Optional:
# You may also want to hard link named.conf and rndc.key from /var/named/chroot/etc to /etc.
# Check with
ls -li /etc/named.conf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
ls -li /etc/rndc.key /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key
# Create hard links with (ln with no -s)
ln /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf
ln /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key /etc/rndc.key
# Enable the named-chroot service
# Note: If you are running named-chroot.service you do not run named.service
# Note: This is a significant change (in FC18)/(relating to systemd)
systemctl enable named-chroot.service
systemctl start named-chroot.service
# Check with
systemctl status named-chroot.service
# For ease in named administration add yourself to group named
useradd ???
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