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26 <p><span class="application">named-journalprint</span> — print zone journal in human-readable form</p>
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30 <div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">named-journalprint</code> {<em class="replaceable"><code>journal</code></em>}</p></div>
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33 <a name="id-1.7"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
35 <span class="command"><strong>named-journalprint</strong></span>
36 prints the contents of a zone journal file in a human-readable
40 Journal files are automatically created by <span class="command"><strong>named</strong></span>
41 when changes are made to dynamic zones (e.g., by
42 <span class="command"><strong>nsupdate</strong></span>). They record each addition
43 or deletion of a resource record, in binary format, allowing the
44 changes to be re-applied to the zone when the server is
45 restarted after a shutdown or crash. By default, the name of
46 the journal file is formed by appending the extension
47 <code class="filename">.jnl</code> to the name of the corresponding
51 <span class="command"><strong>named-journalprint</strong></span> converts the contents of a given
52 journal file into a human-readable text format. Each line begins
53 with "add" or "del", to indicate whether the record was added or
54 deleted, and continues with the resource record in master-file
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59 <a name="id-1.8"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
61 <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">named</span>(8)</span>,
62 <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nsupdate</span>(8)</span>,
63 <em class="citetitle">BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</em>.