Other than KILL?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <890B12B8398AD211BC6100805FA784A205383864 at es04snlnt.sandia.gov>,
Cinense, Mark <macinen at sandia.gov> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a signal to reset the named stats other than sending a
>kill -9 to the PID.  We would like to just reset stats instead of killing
>the daemon.  I looked into NDC, however I do not think our namservers are
>setup to run NDC.

I don't think there's any way to reset the stats other than restarting
named.  Why do you think kill -9 is the only way to restart named?  A
normal kill (without -9) is the right way to kill most daemons; -9 should
only be a last resort if the process won't go away with a normal kill.

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