I'm a newbie trying to set up a linode running Debian 5.0 to run bind9 in a chroot "jail".

The instructions I'm following call for editing /etc/init.d/sysklogd so the line

SYSLOG=""

becomes

SYSLOG="-a /var/lib/named/dev/log"

But the node doesn't have sysklogd. It does have rsyslog, and the configuration file for that sets

RSYSLOG=rsyslog

Editing that seems less straightforward.

1. What is the difference between rsyslog and sysklog?
2. How do I edit rsyslog for the chroot configuration?

Rsyslog is the modern version of sysklogd -- see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/Rsyslogd for related comments.


Difficult to say without knowing the rest of the instructions you're following
However, a good guess would be to create a new file named /etc/rsyslog.d/bind-chroot.conf, and insert the line

$AddUnixListenSocket /var/lib/named/dev/log

Cheers.

Hi chernevik, maybe you'll find useful this howto:

Configuring bind9 in a chroot, lenny version.

Thanks, I'll look at both.