Ever growing jnl files

[Scott Baker]

Nicholas F Miller wrote:
> We have a few dynamic zones that are provisioned using Addhost. When
> addhost adds records to the zone every night it will run "nsupdate <
> update.file". The update.file will contain records like these:
> 
> prereq yxrrset machine.colorado.edu. in a
> update delete  machine.colorado.edu. in a
> 
> prereq yxrrset machine.colorado.edu. in hinfo
> update delete machine.colorado.edu. in HINFO
> 
> This all works fine but the jnl doesn't ever go away after nsupdate runs
> like this. The jnl will continue to be appended to every night when
> nsupdate is run again. If we use nsupdate without feeding it a file the
> jnl will disappear like it's supposed to. Is this a glitch in bind
> bind-9.5.0-P2?

How about:

#Do not let the journals get too big
max-journal-size 512k;