need help with named and log rotate..

[Duane Cox]

I am running named daemon as user named and group named... I wouldnt be able
to execute /usr/sbin/ndc
corretcly then right.. is there another way?

Duane Cox

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathias Koerber <mathias at staff.singnet.com.sg>
To: Duane Cox <dcox at coxnetwork.com>
Cc: BING List <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: need help with named and log rotate..


>On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Duane Cox wrote:
>
>| Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:31:36 -0600
>| From: Duane Cox <dcox at coxnetwork.com>
>| To: BING List <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
>| Subject: need help with named and log rotate..
>|
>|
>| I really need some help on this named logging.. please.  I have named
logging to a file named.log, which is setup in logrotate
>| to rotate weekly for 52 weeks...  The problem I have is that named writes
to named.log but when logrotate rotates the log,
>| moves named.log to named.log.1 and creates the new named.log ... named
writes to the named.log.1 and not the "new" empty file
>| named.log .. Maybe named doesnt know about the log rename.. I dunno...
ACK please help... below is some info.
>
>Just add an 'ndc reload' after the rotate. named does not see that the file
has been renamed
>as it has it still open. ndc reload will make named close and reopen the
logfiles, such that
>it will then open the new file. You don't even have to create an empty
file, named will do that too.
>
>|
>| /etc/named.conf file:
>|
>| options {
>|         cleaning-interval 720;
>|         directory "/var/named";
>|         interface-interval 0;
>|         pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
>|         notify no;
>|         statistics-interval 60;
>|         allow-transfer {
>|                 12.15.125.5; 12.15.125.7;
>|                 12.15.125.10; 12.15.125.251;
>|                 };
>| };
>|
>| logging {
>|         channel named_log {
>|                 file "/var/log/named/named.log";
>|                 severity info;
>|                 print-category yes;
>|                 print-severity yes;
>|                 print-time yes;
>|                 };
>|
>|         category default { named_log; };
>| };
>|
>|
>| /etc/logrotate.d/named file:
>|
>| /var/log/named/named.log {
>|     missingok
>|     postrotate
>|         /usr/sbin/killall -HUP named
>|     endscript
>| }
>|
>|
>| [root at orion logrotate.d]# ls -la /var/log/named
>| total 356
>| drwxr-xr-x   2 named    named        4096 Mar  5 04:02 .
>| drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root         4096 Mar  5 04:02 ..
>| -rw-r--r--   1 named    named           0 Mar  5 04:02 named.log
>| -rw-r--r--   1 named    named      349538 Mar  5 23:23 named.log.1
>|
>|
>| Thanks in advance
>| Duane Cox
>| dcox at coxnetwork.com
>|
>
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