From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 11:56:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20751 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA20746 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:56:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Received: (qmail 8957 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Jan 1999 19:56:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:56:13 -0500 From: Chris Johnson To: Jahanur R Subedar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding named.boot file Message-ID: <19990117145613.A8920@palomine.net> 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>; from Jahanur R Subedar on Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 01:44:42PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 01:44:42PM -0600, Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > Hi Folks, > I am new in UNIX. > Do I have to reboot the system in order to update the changes in the > named.boot file or > should the Kill -HP on named would do it. > Please help me. You don't need to reboot the system. That's a Windows practice that you'll soon learn isn't often necessary with FreeBSD. Probably the best way to make named see the changes is to use ndc, as in: ndc reload See the ndc man page for more stuff you can do with it (it's really just a script that sends the appropriate signal to the named process). Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message