elide ns_log_maint < info, keep other ns_log_maint messages

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> 	The following should work.
> 
> 	logging {
> 		channel "syslogwarning" { syslog daemon; severity warning; };
		serverity notice;
> 		category "maintenance" { syslogwarning; };
> 	};
> 
> 	Mark
> 
> > 
> > bind version: 8.2.5
> > platforms: various UNIX
> > 
> > I did some google and dejanews searching, but couldn't find anyone that
> > had asked or answered this question, so here goes.
> > 
> > For our caching-only nameservers, I'm already using null-logging for the
> > lame-servers and statistics groups, and I'm very happy with that.  Now
> > I also want to get rid of the
> > 
> > 	Cleaned cache of N RRsets
> > 
> > messages.  I know I could add
> > 
> > 	category maintenance { null; };
> > 
> > to my logging directives, but from what I can tell, that will cease logging
> > for *all* maintenance messages, including messages at a level higher than
> > info.
> > 
> > I could also change the syslog config (not a good option, because of other
> > services that are running that I want to see LOG_INFO messages for) or just
> > filter the logs, but I would prefer to find a way to prevent bind from
> > logging maintenance messages of importance "info" or less, while keeping
> > the more important messages.
> > 
> > Any suggestions for how to do this?  It's not obvious that it even can be
> > done, based on the the `logging' section of the docs.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tim
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PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org