Sure it does! It's a belt-and-suspenders approach that ensures that human error won't cause your system services to become unavailable. Why use a computer unless it automates tedious tasks for you and remembers to do things that you might forget?
The Gentoo OpenRC BIND 9 init script runs named-checkconf every time you try to start or stop the BIND service or reload its configuration files.
This automatic check has saved me a bunch of time and mental overhead over the years. The auto-check has also prevented some downtime when I -inevitably- fat-fingered something in a config file.
Sure it does! It's a belt-and-suspenders approach that ensures that human error won't cause your system services to become unavailable. Why use a computer unless it automates tedious tasks for you and remembers to do things that you might forget?
The Gentoo OpenRC BIND 9 init script runs named-checkconf every time you try to start or stop the BIND service or reload its configuration files.
This automatic check has saved me a bunch of time and mental overhead over the years. The auto-check has also prevented some downtime when I -inevitably- fat-fingered something in a config file.