You'll note that the "size" lines are commented out.
Since you mention it, at the moment, logrotate isn't doing anything for
me, as my logs are in /var/log/named, and not in /var/log.
Some minor modifications to /etc/logrotate.d/named should fix that,
though.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Steve Snyder wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 09:25 am, Mike Burger wrote:
> > Steve Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > Has anyone gotten BIND to write to log to file /var/named.log?
> > >
> > > Seawolf seems to expect BIND logging to that file (see file
> > > /etc/logrotate.d/named), but permissions prevent that. BIND is running
> > > as non-root (uid=named, gid=named) so it is unable to write to the
> > > /var/log subdirectory.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > I have the following near the top of my named.conf file...just below the
> > "Options" section. Through it, I have various logs for different parts
> > of the named logging.
> >
> > You're welcome to use it as you see fit:
> >
> > logging {
> > channel my_syslog { file "/var/log/named/named.log" versions 5;
> > severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > };
> > channel my_lame { file "/var/log/named/lame.log" versions 5;
> > severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> > channel my_xfer { file "/var/log/named/xfer.log" versions 5;
> > severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> > channel my_update { file "/var/log/named/named.update" versions
> > 5; severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> > channel my_db { file "/var/log/named/db.log" versions 5;
> > severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> > channel my_query { file "/var/log/named/query.log" versions 2;
> > severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> > channel my_security { file "/var/log/named/security.log" versions
> > 99; severity info;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> > channel my_debug { file "/var/log/named/named.debug" versions 20;
> > severity dynamic;
> > print-category yes;
> > print-time yes;
> > // size 50M;
> > };
> >
> >
> > category security { my_security; };
> > category default { my_syslog; };
> > category queries { my_query; };
> > category lame-servers { my_lame; };
> > category update { my_update; };
> > category db { my_db; };
> > category xfer-in { my_xfer; };
> > category xfer-out { my_xfer; };
> > category packet { null; };
> > category eventlib { my_syslog; };
> >
> >
> > };
>
> So do you leave the logrotate named config unused and rely on BIND to
> rotate the logs for you? How does it know the frequency with which to
> rotate them?
>
> Thanks.
>
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