>There are two differents problems, in /etc/init.d/apache2 restart >function you use sleep 10 between start and stop, but 10 seconds is not >enough in the case where some childs cannot be killed easily.
I also observed that problem here. Sleep 10 is sometimes too short, so Apache2 simple stops instead of restarting - I consider that a major bug. We observed that problem many times when running on vmware. Isn't there a better solution than 'sleep 10'? - Dietmar