On Oct 19, 2012, at 9:17 PM, "Michael Hoskins (michoski)" <micho...@cisco.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > > From: Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> > Date: Friday, October 19, 2012 8:56 PM > To: Alan Clegg <a...@clegg.com> > Cc: "bind-us...@isc.org" <bind-us...@isc.org> > Subject: Re: Disable log message > >> >> On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Alan Clegg <a...@clegg.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 18, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Chris Thompson <c...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> On Oct 18 2012, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Jack Tavares wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I am running bind9.8.x built from source and I see this message in >>>>>> the logs >>>>>> built with '--prefix=/blah' '--sbindir=/blah' '--sysconfdir=/blah' >>>>>> '--localstatedir=/var' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libdir=/usr/lib' >>>>>> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-openssl=/blah' >>>>>> '--enable-fixed-rrset' '--enable-shared' '--enable-threads' >>>>>> '--enable-ipv6' '--with-libtool' etc etc etc I would prefer to not >>>>>> have that show up in the log. >>>>>> Short of modifying the source, is there an easy way to disable that? >>>>> >>>>> No way to disable just it. It is in the "general" catch-all category. >>>> >>>> Also, it is output before the configuration "logging" directives have >>>> been >>>> processed, so it comes out with the internal defaults for category and >>>> priority (daemon.notice). Any suppression would need to be done at the >>>> syslog level. >>>> >>>> But I have some difficulty understanding why anyone would want it >>>> suppressed. >>>> It's true that BIND is a bit noisier than it used to be at this stage, >>>> but >>>> can this really be a problem? Do you let the black hats see your >>>> system logs? >>> >>> >>> This message was added by general recognition that being able to >>> rebuild a "drop-in" binary for BIND when you didn't have access to the >>> build directory (where the config.log contains the information) was a >>> good thing. >> >> Yah, a very good thingŠ This has been really really useful to me on a >> number of occasionsŠ >> >>> >>> I, for one, see no reason to suppress this message (but I do have blind >>> spots at times). >> >> Me neither, but I am interested why folk might want toŠ > > Maybe it's viewed as information disclosure? Ah, that's a good point, especially if BIND is being incorporated into an appliance / black box and there is no need for the users of the appliance to know what all goes on under the hood? W > It's always good to give > folks a choice -- what's useful for some (or others, like me, don't care > about at all) will be annoying to others. > -- "Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care." -- Terry Prachett _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
