Synchronous results of rndc commands?

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Michael Fuchs <m.NoSpamfuchs at telenet-ag.de> wrote:
> Hi,

> first thanks to Mark Andrews for answering my last message!

> Another problem I need to solve:

> I need to find a way to get feedback of the commands I send to named via
> rndc, ideally synchronous and with some error condition. I.e. I need to know
> when named completes the execution of such a command and if errors have
> occurred.  The signals and signal based ndc-script of older bind versions
> obviously don't offer such feedback, but I could not find any information
> about the behavior of rndc for the current versions of bind.

> If rndc does not work in the required way, are there other known practices
> known or tools/scripts available?

How about looking in the logfile ? ( i assume that you always
reads whatever comes in the logfile and acts accordingly ) 

tail -f <name-of-logfile> in a separate window is one solution.



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