need help with named and log rotate..
Duane Cox
dcox at coxnetwork.com
Mon Mar 6 14:12:55 UTC 2000
I am running named daemon as user named and group named... I wouldnt be able
to execute /usr/sbin/ndc
corretcly then right.. is there another way?
Duane Cox
-----Original Message-----
From: Mathias Koerber <mathias at staff.singnet.com.sg>
To: Duane Cox <dcox at coxnetwork.com>
Cc: BING List <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: need help with named and log rotate..
>On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Duane Cox wrote:
>
>| Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:31:36 -0600
>| From: Duane Cox <dcox at coxnetwork.com>
>| To: BING List <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
>| Subject: need help with named and log rotate..
>|
>|
>| I really need some help on this named logging.. please. I have named
logging to a file named.log, which is setup in logrotate
>| to rotate weekly for 52 weeks... The problem I have is that named writes
to named.log but when logrotate rotates the log,
>| moves named.log to named.log.1 and creates the new named.log ... named
writes to the named.log.1 and not the "new" empty file
>| named.log .. Maybe named doesnt know about the log rename.. I dunno...
ACK please help... below is some info.
>
>Just add an 'ndc reload' after the rotate. named does not see that the file
has been renamed
>as it has it still open. ndc reload will make named close and reopen the
logfiles, such that
>it will then open the new file. You don't even have to create an empty
file, named will do that too.
>
>|
>| /etc/named.conf file:
>|
>| options {
>| cleaning-interval 720;
>| directory "/var/named";
>| interface-interval 0;
>| pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
>| notify no;
>| statistics-interval 60;
>| allow-transfer {
>| 12.15.125.5; 12.15.125.7;
>| 12.15.125.10; 12.15.125.251;
>| };
>| };
>|
>| logging {
>| channel named_log {
>| file "/var/log/named/named.log";
>| severity info;
>| print-category yes;
>| print-severity yes;
>| print-time yes;
>| };
>|
>| category default { named_log; };
>| };
>|
>|
>| /etc/logrotate.d/named file:
>|
>| /var/log/named/named.log {
>| missingok
>| postrotate
>| /usr/sbin/killall -HUP named
>| endscript
>| }
>|
>|
>| [root at orion logrotate.d]# ls -la /var/log/named
>| total 356
>| drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4096 Mar 5 04:02 .
>| drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Mar 5 04:02 ..
>| -rw-r--r-- 1 named named 0 Mar 5 04:02 named.log
>| -rw-r--r-- 1 named named 349538 Mar 5 23:23 named.log.1
>|
>|
>| Thanks in advance
>| Duane Cox
>| dcox at coxnetwork.com
>|
>
>Mathias Koerber | Tel: +65 / 471 9820 | mathias at staff.singnet.com.sg
>SingNet NOC | Fax: +65 / 475 3273 | mathias at koerber.org
>Q'town Tel. Exch. | PGP: Keyid: 768/25E082BD, finger mathias at singnet.com.sg
>2 Stirling Rd | 1A 8B FC D4 93 F1 9A FC BD 98 A3 1A 0E 73 01 65
>S'pore 148943 | Disclaimer: I speak only for myself
>* Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft
*
>
>
More information about the bind-users
mailing list