How to restart logging

[Mathias Körber]

On 7 Mar 2000 09:09:57 -0800, Morris Jones <mojo at whiteoaks.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>> Am 07.03.2000 um 17:11:14 +0800 schrieb Mathias Koerber folgendes:
>> 
>> > Better:
>> > 
>> > % mv /var/log/named.log /var/log/named.log.old
>> > % ndc reload
>
>[...]
>
>> The whole point was about NOT having to restart named...
>
>No Ralf, he's right.  Reload != restart.  This is the good solution.
>
>Reload doesn't lose the cache like a restart would.

Exactly. I even petitioned ISC to add a new ndc command which would
*only* reopen the logfiles, w/o rereading the config file (and
any zones), which would be even faster. A
	# ndc reload
can take wuite some time on a system with many authoritative zones.

I hope that will make it into BIND 9...

>
>Mojo

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Mathias Koerber
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