On Oct 18, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Chris Thompson <c...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Oct 18 2012, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Jack Tavares wrote: >> >>> I am running bind9.8.x built from source and I see this message in the logs >>> built with '--prefix=/blah' '--sbindir=/blah' '--sysconfdir=/blah' >>> '--localstatedir=/var' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libdir=/usr/lib' >>> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-openssl=/blah' '--enable-fixed-rrset' >>> '--enable-shared' '--enable-threads' '--enable-ipv6' '--with-libtool' etc >>> etc etc I would prefer to not have that show up in the log. >>> Short of modifying the source, is there an easy way to disable that? >> >> No way to disable just it. It is in the "general" catch-all category. > > Also, it is output before the configuration "logging" directives have been > processed, so it comes out with the internal defaults for category and > priority (daemon.notice). Any suppression would need to be done at the > syslog level. > > But I have some difficulty understanding why anyone would want it suppressed. > It's true that BIND is a bit noisier than it used to be at this stage, but > can this really be a problem? Do you let the black hats see your system logs?
This message was added by general recognition that being able to rebuild a "drop-in" binary for BIND when you didn't have access to the build directory (where the config.log contains the information) was a good thing. I, for one, see no reason to suppress this message (but I do have blind spots at times). AlanC -- Alan Clegg | +1-919-355-8851 | a...@clegg.com
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