Bind and Newsyslog under FreeBSD

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Dec 26 02:17:28 UTC 2003


At 03:04 PM 12/11/03, Walt Howard wrote:
>Named is one of several programs (ntpd is another) whose logging is not
>compatible with the log-rollover mechanism used by newsyslog.  Those
>programs do not close their current logfile and open a new one upon
>receipt of a signal, which is what newsyslog expects.  Ntpd also likes
>to do its own logfile-name fiddling; at least named does not do that.

How would you like ntpd to work? I don't remember seeing anywhere where it
fiddles with the logfile-name. If you can suggest changes I might. have enough
time to get it into the next release - ntp 4.2.1. I won't support signals 
though.

Danny



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