Traps generated when named daemon is restarted?

[Victoria Leung]

Hi,

when the named daemon is restarted or stopped due to some problems encountered internally, can traps/alarms be generated? And how?

Thanks...

[Marlou Everson]

I haven't had many problems with named so I don't know about setting any traps. When named starts up it writes to syslog. You could write a script to check for named in syslog loading its configuration. To see if it has stopped or is still running, you could write a script and use ps to look for named or use the PID in /var/run/named.pid. Depending upon your version of BIND, you could do a rndc status to see if the server is up and running.

Marlou