How to restart logging
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Wed Mar 8 14:10:53 UTC 2000
> 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...
Try "ndc reconfig" it reads the config file but doesn't open
zones that are loaded. Not quite the same but almost.
Mark
>
> >
> >Mojo
>
> --
> Mathias Koerber
> mathias at koerber.org
>
>
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