From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 13:28:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01978 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #11) id 101yZ5-0002L9-00; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:12:55 +0000 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:12:55 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jahanur R Subedar Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Regarding named.boot file Message-ID: <19990117201255.A8983@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <36A23DA9.2589451B@jjsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36A23DA9.2589451B@jjsoft.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > Do I have to reboot the system No. Never. :-) seriously, there are very few times when you need to reboot a FreeBSD machine, in my experience. > in order to update the changes in the > named.boot file or > should the Kill -HP on named would do it. kill -hup on named should work. (The easiest way to do this is "ndc reload". If you think that hasn't worked, try "ndc restart", which will kill and restart the named daemon. Note that ndc is in /usr/sbin, which might not be in your PATH, just say /usr/sbin/ndc if ndc alone doesn't work. man ndc for more info.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message