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Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 06:48:57 UTC 2011


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Dan Young <danielmyoung at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
> <merlyn at stonehenge.com> 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



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