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From: taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: named running out of memory and aborting?
Date: 14 Nov 1995 22:53:51 -0500
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In article <488pc7$2qq@hustle.rahul.net>, Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote:
>
>BTW, I have a similar cron job that restarts cron if it dies. How this
>is done is proprietary information, because many people will tell you
>it's impossible. I will let you guess whether I'm joking or not.
I imagine all it entails is a "ps -p `cat /var/run/named.pid` |
fgrep -q named" and if the exit status is 1, then named isn't running.
Got any other proprietary secrets you'd like to share? ;-)
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"