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<p>I don't know the official answer, but I can tell you the PS
method reports to me November, which is the last time named was
started; whereas the pid file date shows noon today, a few hours
ago.</p>
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<pre> Ryan Pavely
Cologix
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/5/2017 3:54 PM, Jonathan Reed
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<div>I'm running <font face="monospace, monospace">rndc stats</font>
and trying to determine how long the stats are good for. I'm
querying the server start time by a couple methods but they're
not the same. Which one should I rely on?</div>
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<div><font face="monospace, monospace">$ date -r
/var/run/named/named.pid</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">Sun Jan 1 03:38:04 EST
2017</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">$ ps -C named -o
lstart=</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">Sat Dec 24 12:03:47
2016</font></div>
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<div>I'm using the version <font face="monospace, monospace">bind-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1.x86_64</font> package
on CentOS.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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