[lug] Determine mtime

[John Hernandez]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 00:34, John Starkey wrote:
> I have a php script that creates a zone file and I need to restart named
>   after it's created. The best that I can come up with is to check mtime
> on the new zone file every 15 minutes or so and if it's after the mtime
> of a file I touched when I did the last restart, then restart named
> again. Does anyone know of a way to determine the mtime of a file using
> bash, or know of a more efficient way to do this?
>

John, a better way might be to have your php script directly call 'rndc 
reload'.  To do this, you'll probably need set up the keys correctly.  Here's 
a helpful reference:

http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/bind9-chroot.html#rndc

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