BIND-9 Logging Rollover

Holdsworth, Matthew Matthew.Holdsworth at cwcom.co.uk
Wed Oct 1 09:08:01 UTC 2003


The only way to roll-over the logs is to restart the named process. This is
a historic thing that the BIND makers have not sorted out yet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	DJ [SMTP:drnj at freemail.redherring.co.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:05 AM
> To:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject:	BIND-9 Logging Rollover
> 
> How do I get BIND-9 to roll-over a log file to a new version when it
> exceeds
> a certain size ? e.g I have
> 
> channel named_log
>                  {
>                        file "/named.log" versions 3 size 1M;
>                          severity info;
>                         print-time yes;
>                         print-category yes;
>                         print-severity yes;
> 
>                 };
>  ....
> 
>  but all it seems to do is to stop writing to named.log when it gets to
> 1M.
>  Can I get BIND-9 to rollover to a new file automatically ?
> 


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