On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > Apologies if you were simplifying things here Lee. > Does it really restart it?
I was just keeping it simple and in the process, I was sloppy. Sorry. > My understanding of -HUP is that it is up to the process as to what it > does. Many just reload their config file, but don't restart. The -HUP option just makes it reread its configuration files, which is usually equivalent to a kill and restart. > ie) on linux servers, there's a difference between /etc/rc.d/apache > reload > and /etc/rc.d/apache restart. All machines I've used Apache on have a separate program called apachectl which takes these commands. Do a man apachectl on on Mac OS X to see what I mean. It's the same on my Red Hat machine. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
