[TriLUG] named.conf

[Jon Carnes]

Try this site:
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/logging.html

Also, the configuration setting can be over-ridden by command line
switches. RedHat and Mandrake apply those switches via a file 
  /etc/sysconfig/named
If that file has the logging specified via a switch, then you can change
your named.conf from now until the end of time and it will have no
effect (as long as you use the service commands to start/stop/restart
BIND)

Good Luck - Jon

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:30, Steve Hoffman wrote:
> This is a question for all the bind experts out there.  
> 
> I have a working installation of bind that handles roughly 200
> domains.  with every restart of named /var/log/messages grows by
> nearly 500 lines...not a big deal, but makes reading the logs a pain
> in the butt.  I'd like to send the named logs to /var/log/named
> instead but haven't been able to do it yet.  I've RTFM and googled
> quite a bit, but neither has helped
> 
> I've done this two ways...
> 
> the syslog way:
> logging {
>     channel default_syslog {
>         syslog local1;
>         severity info;
>     };
> };
> and I added a corresponding entry in /etc/syslog.conf for local1
> pointing to /var/log/named, created that file and set perms and
> finally restarted syslog and named.
> 
> The other way I tried was:
> 
> logging {
>     channel logfile {
>         file "/var/log/named";
>     };
> };
> 
> but neither worked...each time all the messages went to
> /var/log/messages and with all the restarts...it's huge!  Am I even
> close?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.  
> 
> TIA
> Steve