Logging with HUP not working?

[Patrick Hull]

the behavior of log rolling using "versions" and "size" was apparently changed
sometime between 8.1.2 and 8.2.2.  Previously with 8.1.2 you *had* to do an
ndc reload/restart to get the log to roll versions, and the only effect of the
"size" statement was to stop logging once the log file reached the specified
size.  In 8.2.2 it seems to work more logically - you will need to use both
"versions" and "size" to get it to roll.  It will no longer roll on an ndc
reload/restart/reconfig - it will roll when it hits the size threshold.  At
least that is the way it appears to be working to me.  I actually prefer the
current approach over the old one.  I believe this change was "loosely"
documented in one of the release notes.
-pat.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:04:27PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are running BIND version 8.2.2-P3 and have configured named to log to
> different log files according to the type of message. We have also specified
> the number of versions of each log file (generally 5). However, using 'ndc
> reload', 'ndc restart', 'kill -HUP' and just stopping and starting named
> doesn't seem to cause it rotate the log files. It just continues to use the
> same ones - needless to say these are starting to get larger as time goes on
> :-)
> 
> The top of the logging part of our config file is:
> 
> logging {
>         channel our_default {
>                 file "logs/misc"
>                         versions 5;
>                 severity notice;
>                 print-category yes;
>                 print-time yes;
>                 };
> 
>         channel panic {
>                 file "logs/panic"
>                         versions 5;
>                 severity debug;
>                 print-category yes;
>                 print-severity yes;
>                 print-time yes;
>                 };
> ...
>         category panic { panic; };
>         category default { our_default; };
> 
> No errors are shown in the log files (particularly misc) regarding the
> syntax, and nothing in /var/adm or /var/log - we are using a Sun Solaris 7
> system.
> 
> Messages are being logged okay, its just the log rotation that doesn't seem
> to be happening.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> John.
> 
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