Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

[Adam Carter]

>
> The problem is, it runs forever, and does not want to stop:
>

Standard practice for any daemon that doesnt want to stop via the init
script, most graceful to most forceful;
1. Try the daemons native shutdown command (some have an option to shutdown
only after any connected clients are serviced, eg apache)
2. Issue the process the TERM signal via kill or pkill as root (TERM is the
default signal) to shut down the process gracefully. So say "pkill named"
but make sure there are no other processes with "named" anywhere in their
name or they'll be killed too.
3. Issue the process the KILL signal via kill or pkill as root, by adding
the -9 argument, so "pkill -9 named"

You may need to /etc/init.d/named zap to clear the state if
/etc/init.d/named start reports that the process is already running.