Changing where BIND logs to

[Cricket Liu]

>     I'm running a linux server with bind 8
>     At the moment named logs all events to /var/log/messages.
>     Is there anyway to change where this logs to
>     I dont want my messages file to cantain all this other stuff at is
> can be hard to look through the log files.

Sure.  Take a look at the logging statement.  You'll
probably want to define a file channel to send all
output to.  Or you could use syslog.conf to send
all daemon facility messages to a file other than
/var/log/messages.

cricket

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