Scripts to start and stop

[Adam Lang]

So I would add this to my named script to start instead of named -u named?

I just need to change the appropriate variables to the appropriate paths?

Also, if want to stop named, I would have to kill this script and then kill
named?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Waters" <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Scripts to start and stop


>
> Adam Lang wrote:
> >
> > I did this in the init.d directory and it works, but I would like
opinion if
> > it is the correct way to do it
>
> Looks pretty much the right sort of thing for a Linux box.
>
> Nominum ship a "nanny" script to check if BIND has crashed
> and restart it, under bind-9.x.x/contrib/nanny, the PERL is
> self documenting.
>
> BIND is pretty reliable, but you might consider using this
> script, or other monitoring tools depending how reliable
> your BIND implementation has to be. Anyway try to find out
> when BIND has stopped on a box, otherwise you'll only know
> when all your servers are dead and the DNS isn't working.
>
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