Can't get BIND to log to file

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Sat May 19 17:58:34 UTC 2001


    Lars> Hi, I am running a BIND v. 8.2.3 nameserver, chrooted, on a
    Lars> FreeBSD server.  Everything is working fine, but I have a
    Lars> problem that I can't get named to log to a file.

    Lars> Al I see are the messages in my /var/log/daemon.log file
    Lars> from the default_syslog channel (I run my syslog daemon with
    Lars> a '-l /chroot/bind/dev/log' option) I don't get a
    Lars> /var/log/named.log file anywhere. Not even when I stop and
    Lars> start the named daemon. This I don't understand. Am I
    Lars> overlooking something here?????

Have you created the /var/log/named.log file inside the chroot jail?
Can the name server write to it? Are there any error messages in
syslog when the name server starts? If so, what are they?



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