Subject: Re: /etc/daily and /scratch
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/22/1996 11:03:21
[ On Tue, March 19, 1996 at 01:50:49 (+0100), Matthias Scheler wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /etc/daily and /scratch
>
> you wrote in <199603181756.LAA03887@solutions.solon.com>:
> > Speaking of defaults, is there a way to make named flush unused names?
> > It gets to about 4+ megs of core on my system.
> 
> Put "/usr/sbin/named.restart >/dev/null 2>&1" into root's crontab.

That'll work, but it'll work against you if you use the Internet
regularly.  You *want* that large cache -- and it expires things by
itself as the TTLs for each record are decremented to zero.

If you're that tight on swap space, get more.

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