How to gracefully shutdown bind10 noninteractively

Jeremy C. Reed jreed at isc.org
Sat Dec 3 14:39:35 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Spain, Dr. Jeffry A. wrote:

> I would like to create an initialization script /etc/init.d/bind10 for 
> Ununtu Oneiric that can start, stop, and restart bind10. To shutdown 
> bind10, I understand that I can log into bindctl and issue the ?Boss 
> shutdown? command. Can you recommend a way to do this noninteractively 
> in the proposed initialization script? Thanks.

I use in my scripts:

	echo Boss shutdown | bindctl

I'd like to improve bindctl so I can do: "bindctl bind10 shutdown" (note 
lowercase and change component name also but that is a different 
ticker).



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