Package: lighttpd Version: 1.4.43+git20161216-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
The way lighttpd is packaged by Debian does not seem to make it possible to reload lighttd's configuration without restarting it (terminating any ongoing client connections). Specifically, sending SIGHUP to lighttpd does not appear to make it reload its configuration, and running systemctl force-reload lighttpd.service makes it restart, which kills ongoing connections. I think it would be preferable to run lighttpd using the lighttpd-angel program (which is part of the lighttpd distribution, and also shipped by Debian), which makes it possible to restart a new lighttpd with the new configuration while leaving the old one around to finish handling ongoing connections. More information: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-January/001067.html> <https://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2007/09/02/there-is-an-angel-for-lighty/> Using lighttpd-angel, it should be possible to ask lighttpd to reload its configuration without terminating ongoing connections. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lighttpd depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.46 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libfam0 2.7.0-17.2 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-2 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0c-2 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii mime-support 3.60 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 Versions of packages lighttpd recommends: ii spawn-fcgi 1.6.4-1 Versions of packages lighttpd suggests: ii apache2-utils 2.4.25-1 pn lighttpd-doc <none> ii openssl 1.1.0c-2 pn php5-cgi <none> pn rrdtool <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information