On 2025-06-13 19:32, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
> Simon Walter <simon@???> writes:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've noticed in the recent months - maybe as far back as a few years -
>> that there are changes (to probably debian) that make their way to
>> devuan and break things.
>>
>> A recent example:
>>
>> bind log rotation changes cause /var/log to need to be writtable by the
>> bind user... or so it seems.
>
> I'm running bind as local caching resolver on daedalus and it certainly
> doesn't ship and bind-specific log rotation configuration but just logs
> via syslog, as it always did.

OK, do you usually update/upgrade your system or install fresh?

I've been upgrading and am now on chimaera. Is there no named.conf.log
on your system?

root@bind:~# cat /etc/bind/named.conf.log
logging {
        channel update_debug {
                file "/var/log/update_debug.log" versions 3 size 100k;
                severity debug;
                print-severity  yes;
                print-time      yes;
        };
        channel security_info {
                file "/var/log/security_info.log" versions 1 size 100k;
                severity info;
                print-severity  yes;
                print-time      yes;
        };
        channel bind_log {
                file "/var/log/bind.log" versions 3 size 1m;
                severity info;
                print-category  yes;
                print-severity  yes;
                print-time      yes;
        };

        category default { bind_log; };
        category lame-servers { null; };
        category update { update_debug; };
        category update-security { update_debug; };
        category security { security_info; };
};root@bind:~#

The file on my system is from April 2023. Maybe it is leftover from a
previous system/update.

I think I'll have to go with the strategy of installing fresh and
comparing. Oh, almost like Windows. I don't think it will get any better
with the AI hype. I'll have to leave my children with something for when
skynet ... dark skies my friends. Dark skies.

Simon