Bind and Newsyslog under FreeBSD
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Fri Dec 12 17:24:50 UTC 2003
Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that when running bind9 under FreeBSD, the
> logging dies when newsyslog runs and the day's log rolls over?
Nope. And i have several bind-9 on several freebsd.
How is you logging defined ? Are you logging "file" and
not vi asyslog ? Then you'll have to tell newsyslog to
"signal" named after rotation.
> The work-around has been to have a cron job run just after
> newsyslog changes named's log which goes something like
> sleep 30; /usr/local/sbin/rndc reload
seems to strengthen my theory.
> That certainly gets the logging going again with only a loss
> of 30 seconds-worth of logging, but I am wondering if anything else
> can be done to make it work like it should?
> I have noticed this for several years, but recently installed
> FreeBSD4.9 on a system and the latest version of bind9 and it still
> exhibits this behavior so I thought I'd say something about it.
> In the overall scheme of things, it is a very minor annoyance.
> Named still works fine during the no-logging period, but the log file
> simply doesn't collect any new data.
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
> OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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