On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Alan Clegg <a...@clegg.com> wrote: > > 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.
Yah, a very good thing… This has been really really useful to me on a number of occasions… > > I, for one, see no reason to suppress this message (but I do have blind spots > at times). Me neither, but I am interested why folk might want to… W > > AlanC > -- > Alan Clegg | +1-919-355-8851 | a...@clegg.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Consider orang-utans. In all the worlds graced by their presence, it is suspected that they can talk but choose not to do so in case humans put them to work, possibly in the television industry. In fact they can talk. It's just that they talk in Orang-utan. Humans are only capable of listening in Bewilderment. -- Terry Practhett _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
