Other than KILL?

[Cinense, Mark]

The reason a -9 was put into the script, is because named would not shutdown
all the time.  So I guess that is why the last administrator put it in
there.  Is there any way of providing nameservice that produces .9995
uptime.  The customer wants to have nameservice with these stats 24x7.  Is
this possible?

Mark A Cinense

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at genuity.net]
		Sent:	May 16, 2000 8:16 AM
		To:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
		Subject:	Re: Other than KILL?

		In article
<890B12B8398AD211BC6100805FA784A205383864 at es04snlnt.sandia.gov>,
		Cinense, Mark <macinen at sandia.gov> wrote:
		>Does anyone know of a signal to reset the named stats other
than sending a
		>kill -9 to the PID.  We would like to just reset stats
instead of killing
		>the daemon.  I looked into NDC, however I do not think our
namservers are
		>setup to run NDC.

		I don't think there's any way to reset the stats other than
restarting
		named.  Why do you think kill -9 is the only way to restart
named?  A
		normal kill (without -9) is the right way to kill most
daemons; -9 should
		only be a last resort if the process won't go away with a
normal kill.

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