I am running bind 9.3.1 on SuSE Open 10 and bind 9.3.2 on SuSE 10.1, as master and slave servers respectively. The problem I'm having is that the slave server will get the zone from the master and then bomb out when trying to rename it to the zone file needed on the slave server. The syslog messages look like this: transfer of 'test.com/IN' from 172.30.1.50#53": connected using 172.30.1.51:40269 dumping master file: rename: slave/bak.test.com: permission denied The daemon runs in a chroot jail in /var/lib/named, the directory that holds the zone files, /var/lib/named/slave is owned by the user named that bind runs as. Each time bind tries to get a copy of the zone from the master it creates a file "tmp-[unique string] in the slave directory but never creates the zone file. I have looked at these files and they contain the zone information complete from the master server. I have tried creating the zone file first and then starting the slave server so it could update and existing file. When I try this the permission denied errors go away, but the zone file I have created does not get updated. I have turned on notify on the master server to make sure the slave was notified of the changes so it could get the updated file, but to no avail. I have searched far and wide on the web for anything close to this type of error and have found nothing. The closest I have come are errors about permissions in the chroot jail not being assigned to the proper user. I have checked this several times and because the named user can, and does, create the "tmp-" files, this is not the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Doug Doug Morris Amerimark Direct LLC IT Infrastructure Ext: 2243