Logrotate for bind9

[Blason R]

Corrext I needed a settings like this; I was trying mulitple options but
wasnt working. Let me try this!!

Thanks for providing the same.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:23 PM Browne, Stuart <Stuart.Browne at team.neustar>
wrote:

> How about a clear, direct example of using external service 'logrotate'
> (this is from one of my redhat systems, but the same concept applies to
> Ubuntu/Debian):
>
>
>
> [bekar at dns-nomnom1.den ~]$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/named
>
> /var/log/named/*.log {
>
>   compress
>
>   create 0644 named named
>
>   daily
>
>   dateext
>
>   missingok
>
>   notifempty
>
>   rotate 30
>
>   sharedscripts
>
>   postrotate
>
>     /usr/sbin/rndc reconfig > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
>
>   endscript
>
> }
>
>
>
> We put our logs in the custom location of '/var/log/named/'; if you put
> them somewhere else, you'll need to change that. The other settings are
> direct references to Anand's email. Finally, you'll want to change the 30
> to 180 to keep 180 different days worth of logs.
>
>
>
> BIND internally doesn't have the concept based rotation, only size-based
> rotation. In order to achieve per-day logs, you'll need to use the external
> tool 'logrotate' (or similar) for your rotation. If you do that, you'll
> want to disable BIND's rotation in the logs configuration (if you're using
> that currently), so not this:
>
>
>
> logging {
>
>         channel ns_log {
>
>                 file "/var/log/named/named.log" versions 3 size 256M;
>
>                 severity dynamic;
>
>                 print-time yes;
>
>                 print-severity yes;
>
>                 print-category yes;
>
>         };
>
> ...
>
>         category default { ns_log; };
>
>         category general { ns_log; };
>
>         category config { ns_log; };
>
> };
>
>
>
> But this:
>
>
>
> logging {
>
>         channel ns_log {
>
>                 file "/var/log/named/named.log";
>
>                 severity dynamic;
>
>                 print-time yes;
>
>                 print-severity yes;
>
>                 print-category yes;
>
>         };
>
> ...
>
>         category default { ns_log; };
>
>         category general { ns_log; };
>
>         category config { ns_log; };
>
> };
>
>
>
> Hope this clarifies the idea a little for you.
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> *From:* bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Blason R
> *Sent:* Thursday, 5 July 2018 4:44 PM
> *To:* bicweld at gmail.com
> *Cc:* bind-users
> *Subject:* Re: Logrotate for bind9
>
>
>
> What exactly are those? Well what I wated to achieve here is to rotate the
> logs daily and start new file; then compress
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:21 AM Rohan Henry <bicweld at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not use Bind logging option?
>
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2018 8:51 AM, "Blason R" <blason16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> I am not getting appropriate results for my custom daily logrorate for
> bind9 logs on Ubuntu.
>
> Can someone please help me with the settings which would include below
> stuff
>
>    1. Should rotate daily
>    2. Compress
>    3. create new file
>    4. keep last 180 entries
>
>
>
> Do I need stop bind9 while logs are being rotated? What is the correct
> procedure to start logs in new file?
>
>
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