more make magic

diff --git a/Makefile.sample b/Makefile.sample
index 3af6904f03b5883cb5de24e82226991a2c1bf5da..a78edf3d28ee05fadda46e9c8ca92128c388cb75 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.sample
+++ b/Makefile.sample
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
-all: db.example.com
+# edit list of zones and other configuration here
+zones     := example.com
+user      := user
+zonemaker := ~user/zonemaker/zonemaker
 
-db.example.com: db.example.com.py
-       @sudo -u user ~user/zonemaker/zone-maker $< > $@ || rm -f $@
+# heres comes the magic
+zonefiles = $(addprefix db.,${zones})
+all: ${zonefiles}
+.PHONY: all
+
+db.%: db.%.py
+       @echo $* $< $@
+       @sudo -u ${user} ${zonemaker} $< > $@ || rm -f $@
        @cat $@
        @echo
-       @rndc reload example.com || rm -f $@
+       @rndc reload $* # this only returns errors if the zone had not previously been loaded :-/
+       @sleep 1
+       @fgrep 'zone '$*'/IN' /var/log/syslog | tail -n 5

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 86fc359339ed8e774139e06a053259c7a5c88dea..feef6f010d7628f8675d2b6f8b82667c323ad841 100644 (file)
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Usage
 Simply call ``zonemaker`` with the zone python file as argument. The result will 
 be printed to stdout. See ``db.example.com.py`` for a sample file demonstrating 
 the use of the interface. ``Makefile.sample`` shows how a makefile which first 
-updates the zone, and then tells BIND to reload, could look like.
+updates the zone(s), and then tells BIND to reload, could look like.
 
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