NT logging to Event Viewer

[Danny Mayer]

Josh Hyles wrote:
> Havent figured out how to stop the event viewer logs, but adding this
> to the conf file makes it log to a file..
> 

See Chapter 6 ARM. "The null destination clause causes all messages sent
to the channel to be discarded; in that case, other options for the
channel are meaningless."

e.g.

logging {
	category default { null;};
	category unmatched { null;};
};

will drop the messages. I don't remember if ALL messages will be dropped
with this setting but I think that's all you need to worry about.

Danny
> 
> 
> # Setup query logging
> logging {
> 	channel query_logging {
> 		# Enable query logging by uncommenting the below
>                 # Make sure to change the path to a valid directory
> 		#
> 		# version: number of backups created if size exceeded
> 		# size   : maximum size of log file
> 		#
> 		file "C:\dns\query.log" versions 3 size 100M;
> 
> 		# Time stamp entries
> 		#
> 		print-time yes;
> 	};
> 	channel activity_log {
> 	        severity info;
> 	        print-time yes;
> 	        print-category yes;
> 	        print-severity yes;
> 	file "C:\dns\activity.log" versions 3 size 100M;
> 	};
> 	category queries { query_logging; };
> 	category default         { activity_log; };
> 	category xfer-in         { activity_log; };
> 	category xfer-out        { activity_log; };
> 	category notify          { activity_log; };
> 	category security        { activity_log; };
> 	
>     category update          { activity_log; };
> 	category lame-servers { null; };
> };
> 
> On 1/23/06, Josh Hyles <josh.maillists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to figure out how to make my logs go into a text file
>> instead of having 1 line per event in Event viewer which takes up a
>> crap load of space and is really hard to read. Any help would be much
>> appriciated.
>>
>> Josh
>>
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