Hi -

I have been using the command line on a slave server to synchronize dns files from a master server using the following (there is an ssh key relation between the two):

rsync -e ssh -avz --delete-after user@masterserverIP:/etc/named.conf /etc/
rsync -e ssh -avz --delete-after user@masterserverIP:/var/named/* /var/named/

However, after running the above commands, I need to then reload BIND on the slave.

Can anyone point me towards the syntax of how I might do this with a bash script?

I hope this makes sense....

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I'll give it a shot...

reloading bind from the command line, should be as simple as

that seems so simple, that I'm sure you mean something else.

Is this all part of a current script? or are you trying to write one? An rsync script is usually rather simple, that's how I run backups on my server as well... let me know if I can be of any more help...

Thank you and sorry for the lack of clarity - yes, I was trying to come up with a script.

Thanks again,
B.

Why aren't you letting bind do this? Its part of its functionality:

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...namedconf.html

allow-transfer, masters

Thanks - I've used this before but it does not save any time.

Unless I missed something, you still need to create the slave zone on the secondary, only after which the transfers will occur.

Beyond this, using my current routine, I can also update changes to any other zones that have occured, as well as delete zones that have been deleted from the primary.

When trying below:

rsync -e ssh -avz --delete-after user@masterserverIP:/etc/named.conf /etc/
rsync -e ssh -avz --delete-after user@masterserverIP:/var/named/* /var/named/
service named restart

it reloads the master server.

Thanks,
B