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Subject: Re: Crontab for killing and restarting named
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, That Doug Guy wrote:

> *Hiding face*
> 
> 	Well, my thanks to the kind soul that replied with the incredibly 
> obvious answer that kill -9 `cat /var/run/named.pid` will do what I want.  I 
> think it's time for me to go to bed now.  *Sigh*
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug
> 
> PS, the reason that I want to kill and restart it is to keep memory usage 
> down.  It's not my idea to do it this way, it's the boss's. :)  Anyone with a 
> better suggestion?
>
	Point resolv.conf at another site? :)