> Thanks for checking. I think this is due to the chroot and /dev/log not > being available from inside the chroot. A symbolic link from > /my_chroot/dev/log to /dev/log may work. > (unless the syslog service you are using works differently). hmmmm. my vague memory is that, when jailed, bind runs another syslogd instance. yep bind 581 0.0 3.1 39804 32100 ?? Ss 12Feb08 12:59.20 /usr/sbin/named -t /var/named -u bind root 23796 0.0 0.1 3184 1008 ?? Ss 13Mar08 0:07.21 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s and we would have to hack this into the freebsd startup script in contrib randy