Re: general/832: sending a kill -HUP to httpd will cause it down.

[Marc Slemko]

Synopsis: sending a kill -HUP to httpd will cause it down.

Comment-Added-By: marc
Comment-Added-When: Wed Jul  9 07:39:05 PDT 1997
Comment-Added:
One other workaround is to use -USR1 instead of -HUP.
This does a graceful restart.  See the docs for details;
it is not applicable in all situations since it doesn't
immediately close the logfiles, but can be used in some.