DHCP messages bombarding console

[Brad Dameron]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of >Keith
>Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:06 PM
>To: Users of ISC DHCP
>Subject: RE: DHCP messages bombarding console
>
>On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, John Tabasz (jtabasz) wrote:
>
>|->If I include log-facility local3; in my dhcpd.conf file, that is
what 
>|->defines local3 as the facility to refer to in syslog.conf right?
>
>I use in dhcpd.conf:
>
>log-facility local7;
>
>and in syslog.conf:
>
>local7.*       /var/log/dhcpd.log
>
>This is under FreeBSD.

Also use a - in front of the path like so:

-/var/log/dhcpd.log

This tells syslog to change and write 20 lines at a time. It will
increase performance and lower your drive activity dramatically. Also
good to use with apache logs, etc. With syslog-ng set sync(0) to
sync(20).

Brad