rndc stats on SLES 10 (BIND 9.3.2)

[Chris Buxton]

'rndc stats' should not display any output. The behavior you're  
seeing is normal.

On the other hand, 'rndc status' (note the extra 'u') gives a short  
status report to stdout (your screen or shell window), but does not  
write anything to disk.

Chris Buxton
Men & Mice

On Sep 24, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Ryan McCain wrote:

> When I ran "rndc stats I used to get an error, now after changing  
> directory permissions around it just goes to a shell prompt.  See  
> below:
>
> dss-dr93la05:/var/lib/named/slave # rndc stats
> dss-dr93la05:/var/lib/named/slave #
>
> This is from named.conf:
>
> statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";
>         zone-statistics yes;
>         notify no;
> #      recursion no;
>
>
> ...As you can see the permissions are set to give everyone 777 to  
> named.stats
>
> dss-dr93la05:/var/log # ll named.stats
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27020 2007-09-24 10:39 named.stats
> dss-dr93la05:/var/log #
>
> ..There are stats in the the named.stats file, however for some  
> reason running rndc stats doesn't display them.
>
> One thing Im thinking of that might be confusing BIND is that we  
> initially installed it to run in a chroot jail.  After the fact we  
> changed that in /etc/sysconfig/named to not run in a chroot jail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks..
>
>