Disable log message

Warren Kumari warren at kumari.net
Sat Oct 20 00:56:58 UTC 2012


On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 18, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Chris Thompson <cet1 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 18 2012, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Jack Tavares wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I  am running bind9.8.x built from source and I see this message in the logs
>>>> built with '--prefix=/blah' '--sbindir=/blah' '--sysconfdir=/blah' '--localstatedir=/var' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-openssl=/blah' '--enable-fixed-rrset' '--enable-shared' '--enable-threads' '--enable-ipv6' '--with-libtool'  etc etc etc I would prefer to not have that show up in the log.
>>>> Short of modifying the source, is there an easy way to disable that?
>>> 
>>> No way to disable just it. It is in the "general" catch-all category.
>> 
>> Also, it is output before the configuration "logging" directives have been
>> processed, so it comes out with the internal defaults for category and
>> priority (daemon.notice). Any suppression would need to be done at the
>> syslog level.
>> 
>> But I have some difficulty understanding why anyone would want it suppressed.
>> It's true that BIND is a bit noisier than it used to be at this stage, but
>> can this really be a problem? Do you let the black hats see your system logs?
> 
> 
> This message was added by general recognition that being able to rebuild a "drop-in" binary for BIND when you didn't have access to the build directory (where the config.log contains the information) was a good thing.

Yah, a very good thing… This has been really really useful to me on a number of occasions…

> 
> I, for one, see no reason to suppress this message (but I do have blind spots at times).

Me neither, but I am interested why folk might want to…

W

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