Make ISC DHCP more verbose

[Luka]

Or, with syslog-ng, define a filter with program(dhcpd).

Luka

Glenn Satchell wrote:
> Not sure about configuring syslog-ng, but with standard syslog I do this:
> 
> dhcpd.conf:
> 
> log-facility local7;
> 
> /etc/syslog.conf:
> 
> # DHCP
> local7.debug     /var/log/dhcp/dhcpd.log
> 
> touch the file, then send a kil -hup to syslog's pid to reread the file.
> 
> Sample messages on a very quiet system:
> 
> Sep 16 22:35:57 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] DHCPDISCOVER from 
> 00:16:ce:54:4e:f3 via hme0
> Sep 16 22:35:58 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] DHCPOFFER on 192.168.14.240 
> to 00:16:ce:54:4e:f3 via hme0
> Sep 16 22:35:59 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] DHCPREQUEST for 
> 192.168.14.240 (192.168.1
> 4.28) from 00:16:ce:54:4e:f3 via hme0
> Sep 16 22:35:59 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] DHCPACK on 192.168.14.240 
> to 00:16:ce:54:4e:f3 via hme0
> Sep 16 22:56:18 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] Wrote 0 deleted host decls 
> to leases file.
> Sep 16 22:56:18 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] Wrote 0 new dynamic host 
> decls to leases file.
> Sep 16 22:56:18 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] Wrote 15 leases to leases 
> file.
> Sep 16 22:56:18 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] DHCPRELEASE of 
> 192.168.14.240 from 00:16:ce:54:4e:f3 via hme0 (found)
> Sep 16 23:27:56 drill dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.info] balancing pool ef998 
> 192.168.14/24  total 15  free 8  backup 7  lts 0  max-own (+/-)2
> 
> regards,
> -glenn
> 
>> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:04:06 +0200
>> From: "Thomas Marteau" <thomas.marteau at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It must be something very stupid but I follow the doc you can find online
>> and I get nothing but the start message of dhcpd in my log file.
>> I changed the log-facility, I made my own filter in syslog-ng configuration
>> and I can't see any transaction logged.
>>
>> FYI, I filter only the log facility and not the level. I try with logger and
>> the weakest level is logged into my file.
>>
>> So any help will be wellcome to get log like at
>> http://web.suffieldacademy.org/ils/netadmin/docs/software/dhcp/#toc8
>>
>> -- 
>> Thanks in advance, Thomas.
> 
>