Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Shane Kerr
All, On Friday, 2013-01-18 10:01:49 +, "Niall O'Reilly" wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2013, at 06:27, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > > >> Could "CLI utility" be man(1) and info(1)? :-) > > > > It could, yes, but `b10-msg NNN` isn't going to break BIND 10's > > development budget (I hope), > > +1 >

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > BIND 9 by default has logging using syslog, using its daemon facility, > and logging of info or higher. > > Is using syslog a sane default for new installations or when using > official vendor packages with their startup scripts? Defin

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 18 Jan 2013, at 06:27, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: >> Could "CLI utility" be man(1) and info(1)? :-) > > It could, yes, but `b10-msg NNN` isn't going to break BIND 10's > development budget (I hope), +1 > and I feel it to be more practical than > scrolling through a man page with 900+ err

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 17 Jan 2013, at 20:58, Mike Hoskins (michoski) wrote: > Syslog as the default is perfectly fine with us. Please keep that as the default, following the principle of least astonishment. > I do also use the rotated file method a few places, so hoping that doesn't > disappear.

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-17 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Could "CLI utility" be man(1) and info(1)? :-) It could, yes, but `b10-msg NNN` isn't going to break BIND 10's development budget (I hope), and I feel it to be more practical than scrolling through a man page with 900+ error-messages in it. ;) But even a simple text file installed on the serve

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Alan Batie Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:52 PM To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: what do you use for logging? >On 1/17/13 10:48 AM, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > >>> By the way, all of the BIND10 logging >>> me

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-17 Thread Alan Batie
On 1/17/13 10:48 AM, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: >> By the way, all of the BIND10 logging >> messages are unique and we provide a paragraph or more documentation for >> each of its 933 possible log identifiers!) > > I haven't checked whether you have that, but that screams for a CLI > utility to show

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-17 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Is using syslog a sane default for new installations or when using > official vendor packages with their startup scripts? I for one would not want to miss BIND9's logging to auto-rotated files: file "/var/named/log/named.log" versions 10 size 5m; Other than that, I'd say logging via

what do you use for logging?

2013-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
BIND 9 by default has logging using syslog, using its daemon facility, and logging of info or higher. Is using syslog a sane default for new installations or when using official vendor packages with their startup scripts? Do any packagers provide a configuration with different-than-default log