dhcpd logging
Glenn Satchell
Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au
Wed Aug 9 11:36:48 UTC 2006
>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:59:34 -0700
>From: Jim Pazarena <paz at qcislands.net>
>To: dhcp-users <dhcp-users at isc.org>
>Subject: dhcpd logging
>
>is there any way to convert dhcpd logging to avoid
>the system syslog mechanism, and use a file instead?
>
>I have an appliance where syslogd is turned off to which
>I am also serving dhcp, and would really like the dhcp logs.
>(but nothing else, hence disabling syslogd).
>
>Thanks.
>--
>Jim Pazarena work:(250)559-4444 ext 0
>Box 550 fax:559-8404
>Queen Charlotte BC V0T 1S0 mailto:Jim.Pazarena at qcislands.net
Assuming bourne shell or bash you can do something like this:
dhcpd -d 2>/path/to/logfile &
This is from the dhcpd man page:
To have dhcpd log to the standard error descriptor, specify
the -d flag. This can be useful for debugging, and also at
sites where a complete log of all dhcp activity must be kept
but syslogd is not reliable or otherwise cannot be used.
Normally, dhcpd will log all output using the syslog(3)
function with the log facility set to LOG_DAEMON.
and in dhcpd.conf disable syslog by using
log-facility local7;
and in syslog.conf
local7.none /dev/null
or perhaps no entries for local7 at all.
regards,
-glenn
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