making Samba work [new detail]

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:43 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:58 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > rndc seems to be OK.
> >
> > Try:
> > # rndc stop
> > # echo $?
> >
> > Also look in /var/log/messages for any possible reasons why this
> > shouldn't work (rndc stop should kill named).
> >
> > You'll need to start named again of course.
> 
> [root at viewridgeproductions2 ~]# rndc stop
> [root at viewridgeproductions2 ~]# echo $?
> 0
> [root at viewridgeproductions2 ~]# service named start
> Starting named:                                            [  OK  ]
> [root at viewridgeproductions2 ~]# rndc status
> number of zones: 6
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is OFF
> recursive clients: 0/1000
> tcp clients: 0/100
> server is up and running
> 
> I'm not sure what that "echo $?" command is - is that "0" the appropriate 
> response?

Yes, it means "success" - it's working :-)

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>