How to use specific log file rather than syslog?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <20000127155003.COQU25012.mail.rdc1.il.home.com at mercury.snydernet.lan>,
Steve Snyder <swsnyder at home.com> wrote:
>I want to direct all BIND (v8.2.2P5) log entries to its own log file 
>rather than to the system log.  
>
>The description of the logging{} statement is pretty daunting.  I'd
>rather not have to specify debug levels and create channels.  All I
>want is that the log entries that are currently sent to the system log
>be sent instead to "/var/log/named.log".
>
>Can someone advise me on a simple way to redirect BIND's logging?

We put the following in named.conf:

        channel syslog_info {
                syslog local7;        // send to syslog's local7 facility
                severity info;        // only send priority info and higher
        };
        channel syslog_notice {
                syslog local7;        // send to syslog's local7 facility
                severity notice;      // only send priority notice and higher
        };

This causes named's log messages to be sent using facility code "local7",
rather than the default of "daemon".  Then our syslog.conf contains:

local7.debug         /var/log/named.log


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