Disable log message

Michael Hoskins (michoski) michoski at cisco.com
Sat Oct 20 01:17:02 UTC 2012


-----Original Message-----

From: Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net>
Date: Friday, October 19, 2012 8:56 PM
To: Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com>
Cc: "bind-users at isc.org" <bind-users at isc.org>
Subject: Re: Disable log message

>
>On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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 thingŠ This has been really really useful to me on a
>number of occasionsŠ
>
>> 
>> 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 toŠ

Maybe it's viewed as information disclosure?  It's always good to give
folks a choice -- what's useful for some (or others, like me, don't care
about at all) will be annoying to others.




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