On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Dan Young <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Randal L. Schwartz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On FreeBSD, it's "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 reload", which does a >> soft reload rather than a hard server down-up cycle. Might be something >> similar in Linux. > > The Fedora/Redhat Apache httpd initscript's "reload" actually HUPs it, > which kills the child processes immediately. Dunno about FreeBSD's. > > I've gotten into the habit of using "graceful", which just does: > apachectl -k graceful
apache2ctl graceful ...On Debian flavors, which is nice if you're running a production box and you don't want to kill apache mid-request.... it also runs configtest prior to restarting, which is nice in case you''re experimenting with config options. -Ronabop _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
