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Re: Possible bug with QDNS admin and logging

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Time: 11:52:19 am

This is a behavior of BIND 9. If you specify a max log file size,
then every time you tell it to reconfig (which happens anytime you
change the server options), it starts a new log file. If you have it
keeping multiple copies of the log file, you can find the old one as
quickdns.log.0.

Chris Buxton
Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
Customer Service and Sales Engineer

At 1:02 AM -0700 10/27/04, Scott Haneda wrote:
>This was dirving me insane and I think I finally figured it out.
>
>Note the size of my log:
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35K 27 Oct 00:59 quickdns.log
>
>Now, if I go into QDNS admin and change for example either the Query
>Restrictions and click OK or the Transfer restrictions and click OK, now
>take a look at the log size:
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4K 27 Oct 01:00 quickdns.log
>
>It also seems to happen under some cases when you edit the logging options
>as well, ie: toggle the "resolver" checkbox or any others.
>
>I am not sure where the clearing out of the log happens, but it does, any
>workarounds that someone can suggest?
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>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602
><http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052
><scott@newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A.




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