Why 'du /var' reports bogus message 'WARNING: Circular directory structure' if named is running?
Issue
- On running 'du /var' reporting following error messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux if named service is running,
WARNING: Circular directory structure.
This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
The following directory is part of the cycle:
`/var/named/chroot/var/named'
- If service
named
is stopped, the warning messages goes away.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- Packages
bind
andbind-chroot
are installed withnamed
operational
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