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From: "That Doug Guy" <tiller@connectnet.com>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 01:21:26 -0800
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Subject: Crontab for killing and restarting named
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	Ok, this is driving me nutty.  I need to kill named once a day, and then 
restart it.  First I tried a command line to do this in the crontab, but I couldn't get 
that to work, so I decided to use a script.  Here is the script that I ended up with:

#!/bin/sh
PID=`/bin/ps ax | /usr/bin/grep named | /usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/awk 
'{print $1}'`
/bin/kill -9 ${PID}
/bin/sleep 5
/usr/sbin/named

The only problem is, it doesn't work properly.  When I run it from the command 
line, it kills named, then hangs.  I have to kill the script with ^C.  Here is the error 
(named was pid 8781):

[root@dalnet ~/bin] 123# kill-named
Killed
kill: [root@dalnet ~/bin] 124# 8793: No such process

It seems to be trying to kill the processes that start as a result of the script too, but 
I'm not sure why.  I tried it without the last 2 lines, same result.  If I can just get it 
to kill the process and then exit cleanly I can restart named with a crontab one 
minute later than the one that runs the script, but I'd really like to avoid having it 
down for a full minute if possible.

	Apologies to anyone who thinks this is not a proper use of this list, but it 
*is* a FreeBSD system. :)  Flames in private please.

Thanks,

Doug