I have to integrate Knot in framework which will be testing for the presence of a running instance of the Knot daemon by means of 'knotc status'. This works fine, once knotd has loaded all the zones. However, when launching it there will be a window of opportunity during which 'knotc status' will fail, despite the fact that knotd is already running, but still loading its zones.

Two questions:

1. Is this a correct description, or am I missing something here?

2. If it is right, is there a way, with the concourse of KNOT tools, to find out whether knotd is already running or still loading zones?

I guess that, if it is a matter of just verifying that knotd is running, using the 'ps' command would be simpler. I wonder, however, whether it can be done with KNOT tools alone.