Search Again: Re: OSX logs From: Alan Ordway Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Time: 7:47:49 am >At 10:54 AM -0600 11/5/01, Alan Ordway wrote: >>When setting the Server options for QDNS OSX, what is the >>difference between the QuickDNS log and the System log? When you >>choose to view the log in QDNS Manager which one are you viewing? > >The log shown in QuickDNS Manager is the QuickDNS log. It's in the >file "/var/named/quickdns.log" on the server. > >The system log is managed by the syslogd process, and Mac OS X comes >configured to store it in "/var/log/system.log". You'll find log >messages from several different types of services in this file; you >can search through it for process names using 'grep', as in 'grep >"named\[" /var/log/system.log | tail -n 25' (which will show you the >last 25 log entries that have the string "named[" in them, which are >highly likely to be related to the named process). > OK, so my next questions is what is the QuickDNS log logging? Is is supposed to be logging all the Bind requests? QuickDNS client requests? For example, I have the QuickDNS Log set to Debug 1 and everything checked, but I have very little in the log file. Should I be seeing all the dns traffic? Thanks for the patience. Just trying to figure this out. -- Alan Ordway Institute for Human and Machine Cognition University of West Florida

Messages In This Thread: OSX logs by Alan Ordway on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:00:04 am Re: OSX logs by Men & Mice Support on Nov 6, 2001 at 1:09:17 am Re: OSX logs by Alan Ordway on Nov 6, 2001 at 7:47:49 am Re: OSX logs by Men & Mice Support on Nov 6, 2001 at 5:21:39 pm