Subject: Re: How to properly start named
To: B. James Phillippe <bryanxms@ecst.csuchico.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/21/2001 19:53:02
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, B. James Phillippe wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Nigel Reed wrote:
>
> > named=YES               named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
> >
> > That's how I do it.
>
> Thanks Nigel, I'll give that a shot.  Now, how can I run it from the
> command-line using this syntax?  That is, if I don't want to re-run init,
> how can I invoke or configure /etc/rc.d/named to accomplish the same?

/etc/rc.d/named restart

or "stop" and then "start", if you prefer. Also useful, "reload",
which merely sends a SIGHUP to "named".

Frederick