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Extended DHCP Local Server Overview on page 315
DHCP Local Server Handling of Client Information Request Messages on page 335
DHCP Duplicate Client Differentiation Using Client Subinterface Overview on page 362
Understanding DHCP Client Operation on page 359
The Junos OS trace operations feature tracks general authentication service operations
and records events in a log file. By default, the tracing operation is inactive. To trace
general authentication service processes, you specify flags in the
at the
[edit system processes general-authentication-service]
tracing behavior is the following:
Important events are logged in a file located in the
router uses the filename
change the directory (
/var/log
When the trace log file

filename

renamed . Subsequent events are logged in a new file called
filename.0.gz
until it reaches capacity again. At this point,
filename is compressed and renamed
number of archived files reaches the maximum file number. Then the oldest trace
file—the one with the highest number—is overwritten.
You can optionally specify the number of trace files to be from 2 through 1000. You
can also configure the maximum file size to be from 10 KB through 1 gigabyte (GB). For
more information about how log files are created, see the
By default, only the user who configures the tracing operation can access log files. You
can optionally configure read-only access for all users.
The general authentication service tracing operations are described in the following
sections:

Configuring the General Authentication Service Processes Trace Log

Filename on page 351
Configuring the Number and Size of General Authentication Service Processes Log
Files on page 352
Configuring Access to the Log File on page 352
Configuring a Regular Expression for Lines to Be Logged on page 353
Configuring the Trace Operation on page 353
By default, the name of the file that records trace output for general authentication
service is authd . You can specify a different name by including the
[edit system processes general-authentication-service]
Chapter 10: Configuring DHCP Client and DHCP Server
/var/log
authd . You can specify a different filename, but you cannot
) in which trace files are located.
reaches 128 kilobytes (KB), it is compressed and
filename.0.gz
filename.0.gz
statement
traceoptions
hierarchy level. The default
directory. By default, the
filename
is renamed
filename.1.gz
. This process repeats until the
System Log Explorer
file statement at the
hierarchy level:
,
and
.
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