chroot and hostname resolution problem [was : Re: [syslog-ng]centralized

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Guillaume LACHENAL wrote:
> Gregor Binder wrote :
> 8254  open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
> or directory)
> 8254  open("/lib/libnss_dns.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> directory)
> 
> and I suppose those libs are needed by the resolver ...
> 
> Why 'ldd syslog-ng' does not reported this two files ?
> (nor ldd on the libs returned by the previous commands)
> 
> How could I 'guessed' that I need to copy this files into the jail ?

by using strace ;) those files are loaded dynamically by the libc based on
the contents of nsswitch.conf

> Now my syslog-ng is resolving almost as I want :
> 
> Althougt my $JAIL/etc/nsswitch.conf contains "hosts dns",
> hostnames are only resolved if they are in $JAIL/etc/hosts !
> Amazing ...
> 
> I'll continue debugging, I progress ;-)

do you have resolv.conf/host.conf ?

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