bind/script question

[Adam Lang]

We just discussed nanny.pl earlier last week.  Check the archives.  Also,
the code for it is in contrib of the bind source.

See if that helps.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "MegaNet Domainreg." <domainreg at meganet.net>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 9:18 AM
Subject: bind/script question


>
>
> Does anyone on this list know how I would go about, usind a bash script,
> finding out the status of named (up/down). I would get to know if its
> currently up, it it is the script would do nothing if its down the script
> would make named use the last know working boot.conf file which would be
> backed up everynight. I just need to know how to check if named is up or
> down and based on that have a bunch of if statements that would do certain
> things. I need this because last night my name server went down and it was
> because of a double entrie in the boot.conf file. Im trying to prevent
this
> by have a script start named and based on rather it started or not to
> execute a few things, for example if for whatever reason named doesn't
start
> make a backup copy of that boot.conf that has problems then replace it
with
> the last know working .conf file. At least this way its still up until i
can
> look.
>
>
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> Paul Amaral
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