DNS Log File maintenance

[Vince Hoffman]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

> Regan, Tim <tregan at t-systemsus.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I was wondering if anyone has any example DNS logfile administration
> > tools that preerver the log files daily via cron and compres a copy of
> > the original file without loss of data?
>
>
> /etc/newsyslog supplied with FreeBSD does what you ask for.
>
> A snippet of it's config file :
> # logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when [ZJB] [/pid_=
file] [sig_num]
> /var/log/cron                           600  3     100  *     Z
> /var/log/amd.log                        644  7     100  *     Z
> /var/log/auth.log                       600  7     100  *     Z
> /var/log/kerberos.log                   600  7     100  *     Z
>
>
>
> newsyslog is OpenSource software, grab a copy use as it pleases ( it has =
a licence)
>
> Or, you might even find FreeBSD superior to your current nameserver platf=
orm.
>

I was going to say much the same, but I have vague memories of a package
called logrotate that does a similar job to newsyslog, available for most
linux distros (and also opensource.) available to download from debian
(according to freebsd ports anyway.)

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