Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:18:55 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: That Doug Guy <tiller@connectnet.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Crontab for killing and restarting named Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970117121806.28242A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199701170922.BAA09807@connectnet1.connectnet.com>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, That Doug Guy wrote:
> Ok, this is driving me nutty. I need to kill named once a day, and then
> restart it. First I tried a command line to do this in the crontab, but I couldn't get
> that to work, so I decided to use a script. Here is the script that I ended up with:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PID=`/bin/ps ax | /usr/bin/grep named | /usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/awk
> '{print $1}'`
> /bin/kill -9 ${PID}
> /bin/sleep 5
> /usr/sbin/named
>
> The only problem is, it doesn't work properly. When I run it from the command
> line, it kills named, then hangs. I have to kill the script with ^C. Here is the error
> (named was pid 8781):
>
> [root@dalnet ~/bin] 123# kill-named
It seems that the process that runs the script will also come up in your
little grep/awk pipe (it has named in it's name, and doesn't have grep)!
> Killed
> kill: [root@dalnet ~/bin] 124# 8793: No such process
>
> It seems to be trying to kill the processes that start as a result of the script too, but
> I'm not sure why. I tried it without the last 2 lines, same result. If I can just get it
> to kill the process and then exit cleanly I can restart named with a crontab one
> minute later than the one that runs the script, but I'd really like to avoid having it
> down for a full minute if possible.
>
> Apologies to anyone who thinks this is not a proper use of this list, but it
> *is* a FreeBSD system. :) Flames in private please.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>
>
Nadav
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