[lug] logging with bind 8

[charles at lunarmedia.net]

thanks for the help, however i'm still not seeing anything logging to 
alternative files other than /var/log/messages. even with lame-servers 
specifically addressed as you have below, lame-server errors and still 
showing up in regular syslog output.
does named need to be started in a certain manner in order to be able to 
allow this type of logging?  i even touched all of the related log files 
and gave them 666 perms to see if it was an error in the daemon being able 
to write, but to no avail.

-c



On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 bdoctor at ps-ax.com wrote:

> This is what I use, should do what you wish:
> 
> logging {
>         channel default_log {
>         file "/dev/null";
>         severity info;
>         };
>         channel severe_log {
>         file "/var/log/named/named.severe";
>         severity critical;
>         };
>         channel error_log {
>         file "/var/log/named/named.error";
>         severity error;
>         };
>         channel debug_log {
>         file "/var/log/named/named.debug";
>         severity debug;
>         };
>         category default { debug_log; };
>         category config { debug_log; };
>         category parser { debug_log; };
>         category panic { debug_log; }; 
>         category cname { null; };
>         category lame-servers { null; };
> 
> };
> 
> 
> > i'd like to have bind log to its own file within /var/log rather than to 
> > syslog. i have configured:
> > 
> >         // logging
> >         logging {
> > 
> >           // shunt logging to a local file
> >           channel log_to_file {
> >             file "/var/log/named/dnslog";
> >             severity info;
> >           };
> > 
> >           // specify where categories should log
> >           category default { log_to_file; };
> >           
> >         };
> > 
> > however, upon restarting bind, its still logging everything to 
> > /var/log/messages, which is precisely what i had hoped to avoid. i'm 
> > reading through dns&bind pp147-151. anyone see incorrect syntax right off 
> > that sticks out?
> > 
> > thanks -c
> > 
> > 
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