07-22-2007
Perhaps you named your script "while"?
Last edited by kahuna; 07-22-2007 at 03:45 AM..
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pmdanamed
PMDANAMED(1) Performance Co-Pilot PMDANAMED(1)
NAME
pmdanamed - BIND (named) PMDA
DESCRIPTION
pmdanamed is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the BIND DNS server. Further details on BIND can
be found at http://isc.org/.
INSTALLATION
If you want access to the names and values for the named performance metrics, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/named
# ./Install
If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/named
# ./Remove
pmdanamed is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is
installed or removed.
FILES
/var/named/data/named_stats.txt
statistics file showing values exported from named
/var/named/chroot/var/named/data/named_stats.txt
chroot variant of statistics file showing values exported from named
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/named/Install
installation script for the pmdanamed agent
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/named/Remove
undo installation script for the pmdanamed agent
$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/named.log
default log file for error messages from pmdanamed
SEE ALSO
pmcd(1), named.conf(5), named(8).
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