DHCP messages bombarding console

[Keith]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Brad Dameron wrote:

|->
|->>-----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).

Thanks for that. I just updated syslog.conf on that server. Its not
heavily loaded but serves about a /20 of IP space.

Keith