Re: named entries in /var/log/messages

[Ed Alexander <esalexa home com>]

AFAIK, these entries don't tell you anything you need to
know, other than that named is alive and kicking.  You can
turn them off by editing /etc/syslog.conf to add
";daemon.none" (without the quotes, of course) to the line
that defines logging to /var/log/messages.

That worked for me, but the real gurus out there may know
whether or not this is a good thing to do.

Cheers,
Ed

> Keith Morse wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > 
> > > [plenty of snipping]
> > >
> > > Oct 29 17:19:56 cyrix named[490]: Cleaned cache of 54 RRs
> > > Oct 29 17:19:56 cyrix named[490]: USAGE 941242796 940164099
> > > CPU=10.29u/4.8s CHILDCPU=0u/0s
> > > Oct 29 17:19:56 cyrix named[490]: NSTATS 941242796
> > > 940164099A=6602NS=9PTR=309MX=335ANY=290
> > > Oct 29 17:19:56 cyrix named[490]: XSTATS 941242796 940164099 RR=5874
> > > RNXD=245 RFwdR=4521 RDupR=4 RFail=27 RFErr=0 RErr=0 RAXFR=0 RLame=39
> > > ROpts=0 SSysQ=861 SAns=3517 SFwdQ=4159 SDupQ=1570 SErr=2 RQ=7545 RIQ=0
> > > RFwdQ=0 RDupQ=201 RTCP=2 SFwdR=4521 SFail=0 SFErr=0 SNaAns=3476 SNXD=96
> > > Oct 29 18:19:56 cyrix named[490]: Cleaned cache of 12 RRs
> > > Oct 29 18:19:56 cyrix named[490]: USAGE 941246396 940164099 CPU=10.3u/4.8s
> > > CHILDCPU=0u/0s
> > > Oct 29 18:19:56 cyrix named[490]: NSTATS 941246396
> > > 940164099A=6614NS=9PTR=309MX=335ANY=290
> > > Oct 29 18:19:56 cyrix named[490]: XSTATS 941246396 940164099 RR=5881
> > > RNXD=245 RFwdR=4523 RDupR=4 RFail=27 RFErr=0 RErr=0 RAXFR=0 RLame=39
> > > ROpts=0 SSysQ=862 SAns=3528 SFwdQ=4164 SDupQ=1570 SErr=2 RQ=7557 RIQ=0
> > > RFwdQ=0 RDupQ=201 RTCP=2 SFwdR=4523 SFail=0 SFErr=0 SNaAns=3487 SNXD=96
> > >
> > 
> > Don't know if you're asking about these or not.  If so, bind purges it's
> > resource record lookups once an hour. The above are stats from the purge.
> > It is normal operations for bind.
> > 
> > > --
> > > Todd A. Jacobs
> > > Network Systems Engineer
> > >
> > >
> 
> Should I care about these?  I find it irritating to have my
> log filled up  with these and no knowlege whether or not the 
> messges are telling me something I need to know.
> 
> Bret