HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

sig_named(1M) sig_named(1M)

NAME

sig_named - send signals to the domain name server

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/sig_named

[kill  restart]

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 command-line arguments:

kill Kill the name server process.

restart Signal the name server to reload its database.

Previous Functionality

sig_named shipped with earlier version of BIND was used to dump the database, to set debug levels

and to obtain named statistics. The rndc utility can be used instead. See rndc(1) for more details on its

usage and options.

AUTHOR

sig_named was developed by HP.

FILES

/var/run/named.pid

Process ID