bind9 / named questions

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Jan 3 13:33:56 PST 2011


On Jan 3, 2011, at 15:14, William H. Magill wrote:

>>> ... so which file is "stderr" for something running from "launchd?"
>>> 
>>> As best I can tell, it's "/var/log/system.log," but I don't know that for a fact.
>> 
>> Hmm, could be system.log, though the MacPorts Guide says the default is not to log anything; if you want logging, you would use "startupitem.logevents yes" and then set "startupitem.logfile" to the path where you want the logfile to be written.
>> 
>> http://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.startupitems.html
> 
> Clear as mud.

Hm, I meant to say that these are changes the port maintainer could make to the port to affect where it writes its logfile. These aren't changes I would expect a user to make.



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