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27 <p><span class="application">named-journalprint</span> — print zone journal in human-readable form</p>
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31 <div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">named-journalprint</code> {<em class="replaceable"><code>journal</code></em>}</p></div>
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34 <a name="id2543344"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
36 <span><strong class="command">named-journalprint</strong></span>
37 prints the contents of a zone journal file in a human-readable
41 Journal files are automatically created by <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span>
42 when changes are made to dynamic zones (e.g., by
43 <span><strong class="command">nsupdate</strong></span>). They record each addition
44 or deletion of a resource record, in binary format, allowing the
45 changes to be re-applied to the zone when the server is
46 restarted after a shutdown or crash. By default, the name of
47 the journal file is formed by appending the extension
48 <code class="filename">.jnl</code> to the name of the corresponding
52 <span><strong class="command">named-journalprint</strong></span> converts the contents of a given
53 journal file into a human-readable text format. Each line begins
54 with "add" or "del", to indicate whether the record was added or
55 deleted, and continues with the resource record in master-file
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60 <a name="id2543379"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
62 <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">named</span>(8)</span>,
63 <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nsupdate</span>(8)</span>,
64 <em class="citetitle">BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</em>.
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68 <a name="id2543410"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2>
69 <p><span class="corpauthor">Internet Systems Consortium</span>