log rotation

Andy Shellam andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk
Fri May 4 15:24:37 UTC 2007


Try using the keyword "size", as follows:

file "/usr/local/named/log/secu.log" versions 3 size 20m;

"versions 3" tells Bind to keep around 3 previous files when it does the 
rotation.

Andy.

Daniel Dawalibi wrote:
> Hi
>  
>
> I have installed Bind -9.3.2-P2.
>
>  
>
> Also I modified in named.conf in order to define 20 MB as maximum size for
> log file.  
>
>  
>
> logging {
>
>         channel "transfer" {
>
>                 file "/usr/local/named/log/secu.log" 20m;
>
>                 print-time yes;
>
>                 print-category yes; 
>
>  
>
>  
>
> But I observed that there is no rotation occurs when the size of the file
> "secu.log" exceed the 20 MB; 
>
>  
>
> Can anybody help to fix this problem?
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel 
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>
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