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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Sorry Eric,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I don’t want to clutter up my system with unwanted software. Cygwin should not be required. The solution should be native to windows if windows is supported.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>RayG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Erik Dobák <erik.dobak@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> 13 January 2021 16:59<br><b>To:</b> RayG <rgsub1@btinternet.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nlnetlabs.nl>; unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Windows: Rotating the log file<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 17:57, RayG via Unbound-users <<a href="mailto:unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl">unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Jaap<br><br>So who in NLnetlabs works on Windows? <br><br>Someone must know how the offering for windows works, it is a downloadable offering on your website and works well from what I have seen.<br><br>RayG<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Jaap Akkerhuis <<a href="mailto:jaap@NLnetLabs.nl">jaap@NLnetLabs.nl</a>> <br>Sent: 13 January 2021 15:28<br>To: RayG <<a href="mailto:rgsub1@btinternet.com" target="_blank">rgsub1@btinternet.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl</a><br>Subject: Re: Windows: Rotating the log file<br><br> "RayG" writes:<br><br> > Having installed a syslog server on my system and as far as I can tell its working in itself. What I cannot find out is where unbound it trying to send messages to. At this point in time it would appear to be the event log which is not what I was expecting use_syslog I would have expected it to go to the local system UDP/TCP on port 514 but that does not seem to be happening.<br> ><br> > It is not at all helpful to clutter up the eventlog Administrative events with a whole load of unbound error messages (these come from "REFUSED" lookups.<br><br>So that apparently listens to port 514.<br> ><br> > Thinking about this further I would perhaps have expected to see some form of configuration as to where to send syslog messages but again I have found no useful information.<br> ><br> > So I have to say at this time the windows implementation writing to a physical file seems to be the best option.<br> ><br> > Perhaps Jaap can shed some light on how syslog is supposed to work on windows and what I can do to facilitate rotating log files given that most of what I have tried and has been suggested has not resulted in a positive outcome.<br> ><br><br>No, I cann't. I'm not a Windows user so I wouldn't know. If nobody else on this list answers, I suggest you take this to a "how to run windows" list. Or just try google.<br><br> jaao<br><br> ><br> > -----Original Message-----<br> > From: Joe Abley <<a href="mailto:jabley@hopcount.ca" target="_blank">jabley@hopcount.ca</a>> > Sent: 12 January 2021 16:55 > To: RayG <<a href="mailto:rgsub1@btinternet.com" target="_blank">rgsub1@btinternet.com</a>> > Cc: <a href="mailto:unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl</a> > Subject: Re: Windows: Rotating the log file > > On 12 Jan 2021, at 11:53, RayG via Unbound-users <<a href="mailto:unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">unbound-users@lists.nlnetlabs.nl</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > > I took a look at some of those offerings and there does not seem to be > > a "free" one at all. They all want money and at £100 or there abouts, > > that's a bit too much just to get unbound's logging to rotate neatly.<br> > ><br> > > I did try and install one and from what I understand, I comment the "# > > logfile:" entry and enable the "use-syslog: yes" and it should all > > work. But I had no luck in getting this to function as it should.<br> ><br> > Perhaps consider whether Windows is the best platform to be running unbound on?<br> ><br> ><br> > Joe<br> ><br> ><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>i googled that for you and here they say: <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/358172/equivalent-of-logrotate-for-windows">https://serverfault.com/questions/358172/equivalent-of-logrotate-for-windows</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>install cygwin and run logrotat as you would do on linux. (or i guess you could use that integrated linux on windows?)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>