BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:51:06 +0100, Kees Plonsz
<kees at jeremino.hbunix.net> wrote:
> Cezar Fistik wrote:
> 
> > Hello group,
> >
> > I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try
> > to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just
> > gets killed and not restarted. Does any body have an idea why this
> > happens?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Cezar
> 
> That same thing happens here (FreeBSD-5.3)
> 
> The manual says:
> 
> In  routine  operation, signals should not be used to control the
>  name-server; rndc should be used instead.

Using kill -HUP can be handy for rotating named logs via newsyslog.
Any workaround?

Panagiotis