[Dnsmasq-discuss] Where does the complete dump go?

[Paul Chambers]

Brad Morgan wrote:
>> Three options come to mind; either
>> 1) drop that threshold in syslog.conf,
>> 2) add a line to syslog.conf to log all messages logged to the DAEMON 
>> facility (or whatever you've set with log-facility) to another file. Be 
>> aware that the default changes to LOCAL0 if you run dnsmasq -d.
>> 3) switch to file-based logging.
>>     
>
> Thanks! I was able to figure out where the messages are going and after some
> experimentation, I've decided to switch to file-based logging. I expect that
> these logs could become quite large but before I dive into the writing of
> logrotate scripts, does anyone have an example I could start with?
>
> Regards,
>
> Brad

Yes, the logs can get large quite quickly, particularly if you have 
log-queries on and a mail server on the machine. A while back I ran into 
a bug in dnsmasq (now fixed) where it ceased working when the log grew 
to be over 2GB - I had a typo in my logrotate script :)

This is what I'm currently using:

[root at home logrotate.d]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq
/var/log/dnsmasq.log {
        daily
        # missingok
        rotate 7
        compress
        notifempty
        postrotate
          /usr/bin/kill -s SIGUSR2 `cat /var/run/dnsmasq.pid`
        endscript
}

I'm running Fedora 9, but I doubt it'll need much tweaking for other 
distributions.

Paul
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