You don't want to use kill on named, use rndc instead. Greg On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:51:23AM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Terry D. Cudney said the following on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:17:40PM -0400: > > You don't "pass the exit" to another console. > > > > Rather, do a: > > > > kill -9 PID > > > kill -1 also works. I don't know all the implications of the kill > command and it's parameters however from what I've been told and what > I've seen, a -9 is usually the last resort of killing a process. Some > can just take a plain sighup -1 in the case of a bash process it will > reset it and kill the console connection. If you do a kill -1 > pid_of_named it will re-read the named.conf configuration files like if > you add new zones. If you want to kill a process that will not work > right with a -1 then -TERM -15 will do the trick. And then if those > don't work I resort to a -9 to really force it to die. > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > -- > Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. > Enjoy that gift, that's why it's called the present. > Raul A. Gallegos http://www.asmodean.net/contact.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup