Jeremy, Thanks for the response. Yes I need to change the file name to avoid confusion. Yes I can forward the syslog to a different node my making changes in the syslogger. But I'm not sure how to make such changes so that only named/bind related syslog will be forwarded and the rest will continue to log locally.
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Jeremy C. Reed <jeremy_r...@isc.org> wrote: > From: Jeremy C. Reed <jeremy_r...@isc.org> > Subject: Re: BIND logging in a separate node > To: "Prabhat Rana" <prana9...@yahoo.com> > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 11:08 AM > > What I'm trying to do is log /var/bind/named.stats > in a separate node. > > Note that file name is commonly used for the "rndc > stats" statistics-file. > It may be a good idea to use a different name so you > don't cause confusion > or conflict. > > > So my question is, can I specify the node IP address > and the filename in > > the named.conf where I wand to stat_file to write to? > > If not another option is to use syslog for all the > logging and then move > > the syslog to a different node. However, I want only > bind logging to be > > moved to a separate node. I still want all the other > system logging to > > go to /var/adm/messages as usual on the same node. So > can I can > > configure either named.conf or syslog.conf or both so > that I can move > > the bind logging to a separate box? > > For that use the syslog and configure your Solaris 10 > syslogger to forward > your logging to a different syslog server. You will have to > configure your > syslogger for this. Also in your named.conf's syslog > channel, you can use > the "syslog" destination clause to choose which > syslog facility to log to > (so you can then configure your syslogger appropriately.) > > Maybe someone on this list can share some Solaris > syslog.conf examples > here ... _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users