Ever growing jnl files

[Mike Eggleston]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009, Nicholas F Miller might have said:

> We have a few dynamic zones that are provisioned using Addhost. When  
> addhost adds records to the zone every night it will run "nsupdate <  
> update.file". The update.file will contain records like these:
> 
> prereq yxrrset machine.colorado.edu. in a
> update delete  machine.colorado.edu. in a
> 
> prereq yxrrset machine.colorado.edu. in hinfo
> update delete machine.colorado.edu. in HINFO
> 
> This all works fine but the jnl doesn't ever go away after nsupdate  
> runs like this. The jnl will continue to be appended to every night  
> when nsupdate is run again. If we use nsupdate without feeding it a  
> file the jnl will disappear like it's supposed to. Is this a glitch in  
> bind bind-9.5.0-P2?

What about a crontab entry for once a week or once a month that does a
freeze/unfreeze to force the jnl file to get played into the zone files?

Mike