named server isn't logging

skibler1223 · 02-25-2008, 09:46 AM

CentOS5
BIND 9.3.3rc2
2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.centos.plus

Here is what I have setup in the /etc/named.conf

Code:

logging {
               channel update_debug {
                    file "/var/log/named/named_update.log";
                    severity debug 5;
                    print-time yes;
                    print-severity yes;
                    print-category yes;
               };
               channel security_info {
                    file "/var/log/named/named_auth.log";
                    severity notice;
                    print-time yes;
                    print-severity yes;
                    print-category yes;
               };
               channel info {
                    file "/var/log/named/named_info.log";
                    severity info;
                    print-time yes;
                    print-severity yes;
                    print-category yes;
               };

               category update { update_debug; };
               category security { security_info; };
               category info { info; };
        };

This is an "ls -a" on /var/log/named

Code:

drwxrwxr-x  2 root named 4.0K Feb 25 03:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4.0K Feb 25 03:16 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 root named    1 Feb 25 01:13 named_auth.log
-rw-rw-r--  1 root named    0 Feb 25 03:11 named_info.log
-rw-rw-r--  1 root named    1 Feb 25 01:13 named_update.log

I receive no errors when starting the service, it just don't seem to want to log to these files. I have made sure that named user has write privileges to the files and directory. I have even tried commenting out the logging directive, restarting and checking the default /var/log/messages. It isn't logging there anymore either, and it did before.

EDIT: 11:05AM 2008-02-25
Ok after restarting syslogd logging is functional to /var/log/messages. But still not to my defined log files.
Here are the relevant entries in /var/log/messages

Code:

Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: logging channel 'update_debug' file '/var/log/named/named_update.log': file not found
Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: logging channel 'security_info' file '/var/log/named/named_auth.log': file not found
Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: logging channel 'info' file '/var/log/named/named_info.log': file not found
Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: /etc/named.conf:73: unknown logging category 'info' ignored

Somehow I've managed to get DDNS working but not logging :P

Thanks for any advice,
Ant

bathory · 02-26-2008, 01:54 AM

Quote:

Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: logging channel 'update_debug' file '/var/log/named/named_update.log': file not found
Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: logging channel 'security_info' file '/var/log/named/named_auth.log': file not found
Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: logging channel 'info' file '/var/log/named/named_info.log': file not found

Make sure that /var/log/named is owned by the user:group under which named is running

Quote:

Feb 25 04:00:33 brutus named[9410]: /etc/named.conf:73: unknown logging category 'info' ignored

There is no info category. Take a look here for the various logging categories.

Regards

skibler1223 · 03-08-2008, 12:09 AM

Code:

[root@brutus sean]# ls /var/log/named/
total 0
-rw------- 1 named named 0 Mar  4 04:55 named_auth.log
-rw------- 1 named named 0 Mar  7 03:53 named_info.log
-rw------- 1 named named 0 Mar  4 04:55 named_update.log

Code:

logging {
               channel update_debug {
                    file "/var/log/named/named_update.log";
                    severity debug 5;
                    print-time yes;
                    print-severity yes;
                    print-category yes;
               };
               channel security_info {
                    file "/var/log/named/named_auth.log";
                    severity notice;
                    print-time yes;
                    print-severity yes;
                    print-category yes;
               };
               channel info {
                    file "/var/log/named/named_info.log";
                    severity info;
                    print-time yes;
                    print-severity yes;
                    print-category yes;
               };

               category update { update_debug; };
               category security { security_info; };
               category queries { info; };
        };

Code:

Mar  7 17:58:43 brutus named[10737]: logging channel 'update_debug' file '/var/log/named/named_update.log': file not found
Mar  7 17:58:43 brutus named[10737]: logging channel 'security_info' file '/var/log/named/named_auth.log': file not found
Mar  7 17:58:43 brutus named[10737]: logging channel 'info' file '/var/log/named/named_info.log': file not found

Still nothing. It was actually like this the first time I posted but I posted old data. Its logging normal entries to the /var/log/messages log but still nothing to the custom logs. Given these errors it has to be something I'm doing...or not doing.

Any help appreciated.

bathory · 03-08-2008, 08:41 AM

Make sure you are not running named chrooted. If named runs chrooted then the correct path to the log directory is relative to the chroot.
What is the output of:

Code:

ps -ef|grep named

skibler1223 · 03-09-2008, 10:23 AM

Code:

[root@brutus ~]# ps -ef | grep named
named    10889     1  0 Mar07 ?        00:00:21 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
root     12597 12577  0 04:15 pts/0    00:00:00 grep named
[root@brutus ~]#

Didn't think of that yes, its chrooted. So I need to use /var/named/var/log/named_x.log then?

bathory · 03-09-2008, 12:09 PM

Quote:

So I need to use /var/named/var/log/named_x.log then?

Nope, since you use -t /var/named/chroot, then the actual logging directory is /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/