Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
The Logging System
The Logging System
The logging system give you control over how the server logs events. The
logging system is configured via the logging statement in the
/etc/named.conf file. The logging system allows you to do the following:
• limit incoming messages to a given severity level.
• place a limit on the size of the logging file.
• manage multiple versions for the logging file (to maintain historic
data).
• direct the logging messages to any of the syslogs facilities.
• specify where messages belonging to specific categories are logged.
See the section “logging Statement” on page 90 for more information on
the logging system and how to use it.