Question regarding newsyslog.conf and Bind logs

[Greg Choules]

Hello J
What is it you're actually trying to achieve here?

Cheers, Greg

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 04:24, J Doe <general at nativemethods.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could provide feedback on whether the
> following: newsyslog.conf file is correct to allow for daily log
> rotation for my Bind 9.16.30 logs ?
>
> My currently logging settings in: named.conf are:
>
>      ...
>      logging {
>          channel chn_file_queries {
>              buffered no;
>              file "/var/queries.log"
>                  versions 2 size 1g suffix increment;
>              print-category yes;
>              print-severity yes;
>              print-time yes;
>              severity info;
>          };
>          ...
>      };
>      ...
>
> newsyslog.conf examples tend to make use of: pkill but I note in the
> Bind ARM and man page that signals are deprecated in favor of: rndc.
>
> I am *thinking* the following should work for newsyslog.conf
>
> /var/named/var/queries.log        640    7         *    $D0  Z
> "/usr/sbin/rndc reconfig > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true"
>
> So settings:
>
>      Log path:     My Bind is running in chroot
>      File mode:    0640
>      Log count:    7 (1 per day)
>      Size limit:   none
>      Frequency:    $D0 (daily)
>      Flags:        z to compress
>      Binary:       rndc (instead of pkill)
>
> Is this correct ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> - J
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