how do i know the success of Bind Upgrade

[Danny Mayer]

At 04:50 AM 6/18/02, those who know me have no need of my name wrote:

>in comp.protocols.dns.bind i read:
>
> >Then I did kill -9 `cat /var/run/named.pid`
>
>don't do that.  (where the hell do people get the -9 habbit?)  the
>following is sufficient and correct:
>
>   kill `cat /var/run/named.pid`
>
>[other responses explain why you see what you see]

That's a bad habit too.  You shouldn't use signals.  Use rndc stop or
ndc stop if you are still on BIND 8. You really don't even need the pid
file.

         Danny