bind 9 and killproc problem

[Simon Waters]

Pieter Grimmerink wrote:
> 
> Since I upgraded to bind 9 (from 8) I started to have a problem
> with my start/stop script; it wouldn't stop the daemon.
> 
> This is what the script does for starting the daemon:
> 
> startproc /usr/local/sbin/named || return=$rc_failed

Weird syntax for setting return, what shell is this?!
 
> This works. Now to stop:
> 
> killproc -TERM /usr/local/sbin/named || return=$rc_failed
> 
> This fails.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue what might be going on?

Nope - that is why shells have an option to echo current
command "sh -x".

Maybe you OS is funny about what it displays to "ps" for
threaded processes. What OS are you using?

> The daemon exits when I send it  a -SIGTERM signal, which is what killproc
> does,
> according to it's manpage.

The BIND 9 manual recommends against using kill to stop the
daemon.

My init script does this - amongst other things.

 stop)
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n "Shutting down named: "
                /usr/local/sbin/rndc stop
                RETVAL=$?       

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