real BIND start time

[Ryan Pavely]

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.



   Ryan Pavely
    Cologix
    http://www.cologix.com/

On 1/5/2017 3:54 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running rndc stats 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?
>
> $ date -r /var/run/named/named.pid
> Sun Jan  1 03:38:04 EST 2017
> $ ps -C named -o lstart=
> Sat Dec 24 12:03:47 2016
>
> I'm using the version bind-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1.x86_64 package on CentOS.
>
> Thanks
>
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