Hi,
I found a way to stop the server with the following command inside my module:
system("/usr/sbin/httpd -k stop");
And it works.
--Nicolas.
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:53:56 +0200
> From: massimo.man...@unipr.it
> To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org
> CC: ngou...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Stop server
>
> what if the hardware checking thread is in a process external to Apache
> and, if needed, runs a orderly shutdown of the webserver by running a
> shell procedure?
> This would leave the option for automatically restarting the webserver
> in case of a transitory hardware problem.
>
>
> -- Massimo
>
>
> On 04/07/2011 10:13 AM, Niko Goutte wrote:
> >
> > In fact, I am not able to kill all the processes from the post_config. I
> > can only kill the current pid but I want to kill also all the children.
> > Do you know how to do this ?
> > Thank you.
> >
> >> From: ngou...@hotmail.com
> >> To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org
> >> Subject: Stop server
> >> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:44:34 +0200
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I start a thread during the post_config which checks the state of the
> >> hardware machine.
> >> If something goes wrong, this thread has to stop the Apache server.
> >> Is it possible ?
> >> For now, I am only able to kill the root process and I have to duplicate
> >> this thread on each child in order to let them kill themselves.
> >> I hope there is a better way to stop (or kill) all the processes.
> >> (This should work in prefork or in worker mode under linux).
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Nicolas.
> >>
> >
>
