-----Original Message----- From: Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> Date: Friday, October 19, 2012 8:56 PM To: Alan Clegg <a...@clegg.com> Cc: "bind-us...@isc.org" <bind-us...@isc.org> Subject: Re: Disable log message
> >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 thingŠ This has been really really useful to me on a >number of occasionsŠ > >> >> 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 toŠ Maybe it's viewed as information disclosure? It's always good to give folks a choice -- what's useful for some (or others, like me, don't care about at all) will be annoying to others. _______________________________________________ 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