Search Again: Re: OSX logs From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Time: 5:21:39 pm At 9:46 AM -0600 11/6/01, Alan Ordway wrote: >>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. This is for BIND's log messages, not QuickDNS Manager/Remote log messages. I have to admit to not being fully conversant with the BIND logging facility myself, since they didn't bother to really document it very well. However, I can tell you that the possible, useful numbers for Debug logging go up to at least 10, and probably higher. Unfortunately, most of the debug messages logged by BIND are undocumented and cryptic. So I don't suggest you set the logging to debug for long periods of time. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

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