At 06:54 PM 10/10/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>The Bind error worries me.  The others do not as I am
>using them or have them patched.  Bind is still a bit
>of a puzzle to me.  When I run the suggested command
>"named -v" I get "command not found".  I had some

There are several ways to invoke ps, and most of them use very little space.

Under Linux try 'ps -C named':

# ps -C named
   PID TTY          TIME CMD
23300 ?        00:00:00 named
23302 ?        00:00:00 named
23303 ?        00:05:03 named
23304 ?        00:00:00 named
23305 ?        00:00:42 named

You can also try just 'a' and 'x' for a bit more information:

# ps ax | grep named | grep -v grep
23300 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23302 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23303 ?        S      5:03 named -u named -t /home/named
23304 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23305 ?        S      0:42 named -u named -t /home/named

Now I'm just getting silly:

# ps ax | head -1 ; ps ax | grep named | grep -v grep
   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
23300 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23302 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23303 ?        S      5:03 named -u named -t /home/named
23304 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23305 ?        S      0:42 named -u named -t /home/named

What can I say? I like to have headings.

And for those on a real craze:

C:\>pslist | head -8 | tail -1 & pslist | findstr named
Name         Pid Pri Thd  Hnd    Mem     User Time   Kernel Time   Elapsed Time
named       1240   8   3  101  16004   0:00:09.543   0:00:09.814    1:00:11.973

Okay, okay. I'm not really running named under Windows.

Can I do my check from Windows though? Maybe that's my main box that I use 
for administration:

C:\>plink -batch serv "ps ax | head -1" & plink -batch serv "ps ax" | 
findstr named
   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
23300 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23302 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23303 ?        S      5:04 named -u named -t /home/named
23304 ?        S      0:00 named -u named -t /home/named
23305 ?        S      0:42 named -u named -t /home/named

So it can be done.

What was the question again?


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