I'm having problems getting messages from named piped to a separate log file.

named.* /var/log/named

Aboev seemed a logical entry in syslogd.conf but after reastartign syslogd all named messages are still going into var/log/messages

Am I missing something here?
It's a standard RedHat7 installation.

Originally posted by john@domaincity
I'm having problems getting messages from named piped to a separate log file.

named.* /var/log/named

Aboev seemed a logical entry in syslogd.conf but after reastartign syslogd all named messages are still going into var/log/messages

Am I missing something here?
It's a standard RedHat7 installation.


Did you use spaces or tabs in the configuration file?

Can't recall. I'm guessing that it matters then? :-)

Just tried with Tabs and it's still logging the named errors to messages file.

Sep 14 21:46:37 svr named[3004]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on ns1.nsnoc.com?

For a bonus point what the h*!! do they mean anyway? My guess was that domains are pointing at the name server but the name server hasn't got them in the named.conf file.

You have to use one of the pre-defined facilities defined in syslogd.... named.* is not a facility.

From the man 5 syslogd.conf on a RH7.1 box:

The facility is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, cron, daemon, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, security (same as auth), syslog, user, uucp and local0 through local7.


The facility bind uses can be modified to one of the above.