2009-12-04
ISC Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
named-journalprint 8 BIND9
named-journalprint print zone journal in human-readable form
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`named-journalprint` journal

## DESCRIPTION

`named-journalprint` prints the contents of a zone journal file in a human-readable form.

Journal files are automatically created by `named` when changes are made to dynamic zones (e.g., by `nsupdate`). They record each addition or deletion of a resource record, in binary format, allowing the changes to be re-applied to the zone when the server is restarted after a shutdown or crash. By default, the name of the journal file is formed by appending the extension `.jnl` to the name of the corresponding zone file.

`named-journalprint` converts the contents of a given journal file into a human-readable text format. Each line begins with "add" or "del", to indicate whether the record was added or deleted, and continues with the resource record in master-file format.

## SEE ALSO

named 8 , nsupdate 1 , BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual.