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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2">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):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">[bekar@dns-nomnom1.den ~]$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/named
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">/var/log/named/*.log {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> compress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> create 0644 named named<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> daily<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> dateext<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> missingok<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> notifempty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> rotate 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> sharedscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> postrotate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> /usr/sbin/rndc reconfig > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> endscript<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">logging {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> channel ns_log {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> file "/var/log/named/named.log" versions 3 size 256M;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> severity dynamic;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> print-time yes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> print-severity yes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> print-category yes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> category default { ns_log; };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> category general { ns_log; };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> category config { ns_log; };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2">But this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">logging {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> channel ns_log {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> file "/var/log/named/named.log";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> severity dynamic;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> print-time yes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> print-severity yes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> print-category yes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> category default { ns_log; };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> category general { ns_log; };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"> category config { ns_log; };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2">};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2">Hope this clarifies the idea a little for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2">Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Blason R<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 5 July 2018 4:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> bicweld@gmail.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> bind-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Logrotate for bind9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What exactly are those? Well what I wated to achieve here is to rotate the logs daily and start new file; then compress<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:21 AM Rohan Henry <<a href="mailto:bicweld@gmail.com">bicweld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why not use Bind logging option?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jul 4, 2018 8:51 AM, "Blason R" <<a href="mailto:blason16@gmail.com" target="_blank">blason16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi There,<br>
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I am not getting appropriate results for my custom daily logrorate for bind9 logs on Ubuntu.<br>
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Can someone please help me with the settings which would include below stuff<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Should rotate daily<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Compress<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
create new file<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
keep last 180 entries<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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Do I need stop bind9 while logs are being rotated? What is the correct procedure to start logs in new file?<o:p></o:p></p>
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