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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: named running out of memory and aborting?
Date: 16 Nov 1995 05:15:13 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: taob@ionews.io.org's message of 14 Nov 1995 22:53:51 -0500
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In article <48bo8f$10p@ionews.io.org> taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

   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?  ;-)

He said cron, not named. ;-)

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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