chroot - help

[saravanan ganapathy]

I am parsing the querylog file and creating the report
periodically. If I redirect into syslog file, then it
'll become hard to parse the file. Just my thought.

Pls advice me

Sarav


--- Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 22:21 -0800, saravanan
> ganapathy wrote:
> > hai ,
> >   I am using bind9.2 on debian with chroot config.
> 
> > 
> > My Probs
> > 
> >   If I want to write querylog in
> /var/log/querylog, I
> > have to give this in named.conf.Assume my chroot
> path
> > is /opt/named.So that it writes on
> > /opt/named/var/log/querylog. 
> > 
> > But I want to have log files on /var/named (not
> > /opt/dns/var/named). How to do it?
> 
> Named is running inside the chroot environment and
> therefore has no
> access to the real /var/log.  
> 
> Why not use "option query-log" and let syslog handle
> it?  On Debian you
> would need to edit /etc/init.d/sysklogd and modify
> SYSLOGD to include
> "-a /opt/named/dev/log".  After restarting syslog,
> you will see a "log"
> device at /opt/named/dev/log which named will use.
> 
> More details on setting syslog up to work with
> chrooted environments is
> detailed inside the Chroot-BIND HOWTO
>
(http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/HOWTO/html/Chroot-BIND-HOWTO.html)
> 
> hth,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
> 



		
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