<html><head><title></title></head><body><!-- rte-version 0.2 9947551637294008b77bce25eb683dac --><div class="rte-style-maintainer rte-pre-wrap" data-color="global-default" bbg-color="default" data-bb-font-size="medium"bbg-font-size="medium" style="font-family: Arial, "BB.Proportional"; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small;"style="font-family: Arial, "BB.Proportional"; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you.<div><br></div><div>Adding stop was unsuccessful. I even made this the first directive in my /etc/rsyslog.d directory (00-pdns.conf).</div><div>What is also confusing me is the following.</div><div><br></div><div>In the pdns.conf file, I set logging-facility=1.</div><div><br></div><div>The log entry that appears in my pdns.log is:</div><div><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">Sep 14 09:07:52 xxxxxx-232 </span><span bbg-color="BLUE"style="color: rgb(4, 94, 201);">pdns</span><span bbg-color="RED"style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">[1380]: AXFR of domain 'foo.bar.com' to 1.2.3.4 finished</span></div><div bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 44, 74);"></div><div>The entry that appears in /var/log/messages:</div><div><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">Sep 14 09:26:30 xxxxxx-209 </span><span bbg-color="BLUE"style="color: rgb(4, 94, 201);">pdns_server</span><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">: AXFR of domain 'foo.bar.com' initiated by 1.2.3.4</span></div><div><br></div><div>also, the output from journalctl shows 2 entries</div><div><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">Sep 14 10:22:41 xxxxxx-209 </span><span bbg-color="BLUE"style="color: rgb(4, 94, 201);">pdns_server</span><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">[98865]: AXFR of domain 'foo.bar.com' to 1.2.3.4finished</span></div><div><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">Sep 14 10:22:41 xxxxxx-209 </span><span bbg-color="BLUE"style="color: rgb(4, 94, 201);">pdns</span><span bbg-color="RED"style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">[98865]: AXFR of domain 'foo.bar.com' to 1.2.3.4 finished</span></div><div bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 44, 74);"></div><div>I kick off pdns via systemd: /usr/sbin/pdns_server --guardian=no --daemon=no --log-timestamp=no --write-pid=no</div><div>I am running version: Sep 14 10:31:31 PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.14 (C) 2001-2018 PowerDNS.COM BV</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div><span bbg-color="RED" style="color: rgb(237, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 44, 74);"></span><div class="rte-style-maintainer" data-color="global-default"bbg-color="default" data-bb-font-size="medium" bbg-font-size="medium" style="font-size: small; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "BB.FixedWidth";"style="font-size: small; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "BB.FixedWidth"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><div class="bbg-rte-fold-content" data-header="From: b.candler@pobox.com At: 09/14/23 02:58:28 UTC-4:00"data-digest="From: b.candler@pobox.com At: 09/14/23 02:58:28 UTC-4:00" style=""><div class="bbg-rte-fold-summary">From: b.candler@pobox.com At: 09/14/23 02:58:28 UTC-4:00</div>To: <a spellcheck="false" bbg-destination="mailto:igoldstein5@bloomberg.net" href="mailto:igoldstein5@bloomberg.net"> Ian Goldstein (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK ) </a>, <a spellcheck="false"bbg-destination="mailto:pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com" href="mailto:pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com"> pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Logging to /var/log/messages</div><br></div><div class="rte-internet-block-wrapper" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, "BB.Proportional"; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><div class="rte-internet-block"><blockquote> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/09/2023 22:48, Ian Goldstein (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK) via Pdns-users wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:65022E380001FDBC0C430001@message.bloomberg.net">While I am successfully logging to /var/log/pdns.log, I am also logging to /var/log/messages which I do not want.</blockquote> <p>That question is entirely about rsyslog and not powerdns, but in short you'll need something like this:</p> <p>local1.* {<br> # Logging for powerdns<br> # facility-specific targets<br> action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/pdns.log")<br> <b> stop</b><br> }</p> <p>You can see some more examples at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" spellcheck="false" bbg-destination="rte:bind" href="https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/converting_to_new_format.html#converting-action-chains"data-destination="rte:bind">https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/converting_to_new_format.html#converting-action-chains</a></p> <p><i>("A common construct is to send messages to a remote host based on some message content and then not further process it")</i><br> </p> </blockquote><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>