Search Again: Re: Log Issue From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 Time: 2:01:14 pm At 4:23 PM -0400 10/12/00, Mitch Kahn wrote: >I know I am doing something wrong. > >I just went to my QuickDNS Log for the first time to see what was >there. Nothing would open the file because it is too large. > > How large? 569.5 MB. > >What causes it to grow so large ? That depends. What's the log level set to, in the server preferences? If it's set to Debug, that's the culprit right there. Do you have either of the WebSTAR plug-ins installed and active? If so, is it causing error messages in the QuickDNS log? If so, that's the culprit. >What should I set so that it doesn't? Open QuickDNS Pro Admin. From the Domain menu, select Server Preferences. Click on the Logging tab. Set it to Normal or lower. >Is there something of value in there (for learning purposes) or >should I just trash it before it outgrows the tribbles? And, if I >should read it (or some of it) what can I use to open it? It is sometimes useful to set it higher, for short periods. For example, at Debug level, you can see what happens when the server queries the root servers for information on the root zone. This can be useful for diagnosing connectivity problems, though sometimes interpreting the results can be time consuming. Unfortunately, not even BBEdit can open something that large (or so it would seem from my brief tests). You could probably import it into FileMaker Pro as a tab delimited text file. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: Log Issue by Mitch Kahn on Oct 12, 2000 at 1:22:09 pm Re: Log Issue by Men & Mice Support on Oct 12, 2000 at 2:01:14 pm Re: Log Issue by Mitch Kahn on Oct 13, 2000 at 10:27:50 am