Win2000 AppLog fills up quickly with BIND8

[Danny Mayer]

At 12:01 PM 4/18/01, peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid wrote:

>Francesco Ferretti SEDOC <f.ferretti at sedoc.it> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >          how can I disable the logging function of BIND 8.2.3? At every 
> > service start BIND dumps on Win2000 App Log a line for each zone which is 
> > loaded.
> > I am mantaining 500 zones, and in a few days the log is full!
> > I didn't find any LOG checkbox.... anywhere!
> > Do I need Registry Editing?
>
>Don't you have a "logrotate" function in w2k ???

         NT/W2K automatically recycles it's event log after a specified number
of days.  The default is 7 days I believe.  You can also turn off this behavior.

>As most admins knows, logs will have to be taken care of. UN*X ( it least
>teh more recent ones) have built-in finctions to rotate logfiles on 
>various conditions ( age, size etc). I guess it could be ported to NT too..

Not necessary.  BIND can do this for it's own logging.

                 Danny