a quick linux tip

[Gregory Nowak]

You don't want to use kill on named, use rndc instead.
Greg


On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:51:23AM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> Terry D. Cudney said the following on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:17:40PM -0400:
> > 	You don't "pass the exit" to another console.
> > 
> > 	Rather, do a:
> > 
> > 	kill -9 PID
> 
> 
> kill -1 also works.  I don't know all the implications of the kill
> command and it's parameters however from what I've been told and what
> I've seen, a -9 is usually the last resort of killing a process.  Some
> can just take a plain sighup -1 in the case of a bash process it will
> reset it and kill the console connection.  If you do a kill -1
> pid_of_named it will re-read the named.conf configuration files like if
> you add new zones.  If you want to kill a process that will not work
> right with a -1 then -TERM -15 will do the trick.  And then if those
> don't work I resort to a -9 to really force it to die.
> 
> Just my 2 cents worth.
> 
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