Error log
Matt Causey
matt.causey at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 21:39:45 UTC 2011
man dhcpd.conf:
The log-facility statement
log-facility facility;
This statement causes the DHCP server to do all of its logging on
the specified log facility once the dhcpd.conf file has been read.
By default the DHCP server logs to the daemon facility. Possible
log facilities include auth, authpriv, cron, daemon, ftp, kern, lpr,
mail, mark, news, ntp, security, syslog, user, uucp, and local0
through local7. Not all of these facilities are available on all
systems, and there may be other facilities available on other sys-
tems.
In addition to setting this value, you may need to modify your sys-
log.conf file to configure logging of the DHCP server. For exam-
ple, you might add a line like this:
local7.debug /var/log/dhcpd.log
The syntax of the syslog.conf file may be different on some operat-
ing systems - consult the syslog.conf manual page to be sure. To
get syslog to start logging to the new file, you must first create
the file with correct ownership and permissions (usually, the same
owner and permissions of your /var/log/messages or /usr/adm/messages
file should be fine) and send a SIGHUP to syslogd. Some systems
support log rollover using a shell script or program called newsys-
log or logrotate, and you may be able to configure this as well so
that your log file doesn’t grow uncontrollably.
Because the log-facility setting is controlled by the dhcpd.conf
file, log messages printed while parsing the dhcpd.conf file or
before parsing it are logged to the default log facility. To pre-
vent this, see the README file included with this distribution,
which describes how to change the default log facility. When this
parameter is used, the DHCP server prints its startup message a sec-
ond time after parsing the configuration file, so that the log will
be as complete as possible.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Adam Moffett <adamlists at plexicomm.net> wrote:
> is there a way to keep a separate error log ?
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