Subject: bin/9097: named logging is excessively verbose.
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wes@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/01/2000 08:39:50
>Number: 9097
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: named logging is excessively verbose.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 1 08:39:00 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bill Sommerfeld
>Organization:
>Release: 19991221
>Environment:
System: NetBSD thunk 1.4P NetBSD 1.4P (VAIO.v6) #202: Tue Dec 21 18:44:21 EST 1999 wes@thunk:/usr/wes/sys-current/arch/i386/compile/VAIO.v6 i386
>Description:
named spews a lot of statistics to syslog by default; when
running named in caching-only mode on a laptop, this results
in lots of spurious disk spinups.
>How-To-Repeat:
start named. look in /var/log/messages after a few hours.
>Fix:
change default behavior to not log statistics and the
periodic maintainance syslogs:
Jan 1 00:41:27 thunk named[913]: Cleaned cache of 7 RRsets
>Audit-Trail:
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