On 24.11-13:09, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> I'am restarting named on a remote system by connecting via 
> ssh and authenticating through a certain private key.
> The authorized_keys file on the remote host is setup as to 
> call '/etc/rc.d/named restart' every time this key authenticates.
> 
> The call looks like this:
> 
> # ssh -n -t -i /root/.ssh/restartDNSid remotesystem
> 
> This works, when called directly from the console. When
> called from cron, named gets restarted, but ssh never
> returns.
> 

Sadly, I haven't been able to solve this. Thanks for all
the help anyway.

I use rndc now to reload the named config instead of
calling /etc/rc.d/named restart

Regards
Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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