NAME
sig_named — send signals to the domain name server
SYNOPSIS
sig_named
[-v]
[debug
[+]
debug-level
|
dump
|
kill
|
restart
|
stats
|
trace]
DESCRIPTION
sig_named
sends the appropriate signal to the domain name server
/usr/sbin/named.
The process
ID
is obtained from
/var/run/named.pid
or from
ps(1)
if
/var/run/named.pid
does not exist.
Options
sig_named
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
- -v
Verify that the name server is running before sending the signal.
The verification is done using
ps
(see
ps(1)).
- debug [+]debug-level
Set the debugging output sent to
/var/tmp/named.run
to
debug-level.
If debugging is already on,
it is turned off before the debug level is set.
If
+
precedes
debug-level,
the current debugging level is raised by the amount indicated.
If
debug-level
is zero, debugging is turned off.
- dump
Signal the name server to dump its database.
The database is dumped to
/var/tmp/named_dump.db.
- kill
Kill the name server process.
- restart
Signal the name server to reload its database.
- stats
Remove the old statistics file,
/var/tmp/named.stats.
Signal the name server to dump its statistics.
Show the statistics file on the standard output.
- trace
Toggles tracing of incoming queries to
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.
AUTHOR
sig_named
was developed by HP.
FILES
- /var/run/named.pid
Process ID
- /var/tmp/named.run
Debug output
- /var/tmp/named_dump.db
Dump of the name server database
- /var/tmp/named.stats
Nameserver statistics data
