The -f option to run in foreground
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Jul 13 21:30:10 UTC 2001
aaron.g at hushmail.com wrote:
> I want to use the -f option to named to run the foreground, so that I can
> have a script automatically restart named if it crashes, or runs out of
> memory and is killed.
>
> Something like this:
>
> While()
> {
> if($pid=fork)
> {# PARENT HERE
> wait;
> }
> else
> { #CHILD HERE
> named -f;
> }
> }
>
> Will the ?-f? option prevent bind from forking a child process to do a zone
> transfer?
I don't think it will. But why don't you try it and see? The worst thing
that'll happen is that zone transfers will stop for a while.
- Kevin
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