<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m running unbound. If I use file logging, it neatly ends up in the file I want. If I set syslog in the conf file (this is standard in macports unbound by the way) I get nothing. Logging disappears into a black hole, probably the same black hole where mail logging from postfix disappears in on High Sierra Server.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> <b class="">use-syslog:</b> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><yes</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">or</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">no></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Sets unbound to send log messages to the syslogd, using </span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sys-</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">log</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">(3). The log facility LOG_DAEMON is used, with identity</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> "unbound". The logfile setting is overridden when use-syslog is</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> turned on. The default is to log to syslog.</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">How do I make sure that I get to see the syslog messages. Probably by adapting /etc/asl.conf and /etc/syslog.conf? Or is it a matter of ASL hiding these kinds of messages from ordinary users? Is there a way to tell asl/syslog to put the logging output of unbound into a (log rotated) file in e.g. /var/log?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS. Apple is apparently playing around with unbound too:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">luna:~ gerben$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man8/unbound.8 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2342 Aug 23 2018 /usr/share/man/man8/unbound.8</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Gerben Wierda<br class=""><a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/" class="">Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture</a><br class=""><a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/" class="">Mastering ArchiMate</a><br class=""><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/blog/architecture-for-real-enterprises/" class="">Architecture for Real Enterprises</a> at InfoWorld<br class=""><a href="https://eapj.org/on-slippery-ice/" class="">On Slippery Ice</a> at EAPJ</div>
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