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David Apgar wrote:
| Hey,
|
| PDNS uses the syslog facility to do all of it's logging.  To get it to
| redirect to a different file, you need to tell it to log to one of the
| syslogs 'local' facilities.
|
| To set up pdns to log to (for instance) LOCAL0:
| add to your pdns.conf
|
| logging-facility=0
|
| And modify your syslog.conf to have:
|
| local0        /var/log/pdns.log
|
| That will output all of the pdns messages (info, warning, error, etc.)
| to /var/log/pdns.log.
|
| Check out: http://downloads.powerdns.com/documentation/html/syslog.html
| for a better explanation of how logging is done in pdns.  Also note that
| you'll ideally want to choose one of the 'local' facilities that isn't
| being used by any other processes.

Yeah. I have stumbled over the same feature. Even after reading the
manual from cover to cover. So I would suggest to add a comment to the
default sample config file that this particular option is for windows only.

I think it should save people some valueable time.

Hugo.

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