<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I think that the word "immediately" needs to stay, as that's what differentiates "halt" from "stop".</div><div><br></div>The documentation in its current form seems to imply that named returns a signal to rndc as it's exiting.<div><br></div><div>Perhaps even a simple change such as:</div><div><div>"If -p is specified named’s process id is returned when named <b>begins</b> its shutdown process. This gives an external process a way to determine when named had completed halting via the 'wait' shell built-in or some other method."</div><div><br></div><div>And here is where we realize why I don't make my living as a technical writer.</div><div><br></div><div> -rich</div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:</span></div></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rich Goodson wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">And I'm expected to know this, how? (incidentally, I added a 'wait' <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">statement to my script after I discovered this behavior). This behavior <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">does not appear to be what the documentation describes, is all I'm <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">trying to say.<br></blockquote><br>Just to clarify the documentation part:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Stop the server immediately.<br><br>Maybe we should just remove the "immediately" part.<br><br>Any suggestions would be appreciated.<br><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>