Re: [gentoo-server] Refreshing vhosts without restarting apache

["Christian Bricart" <christian@bricart.de>]

> Top-posting corrected.
>
>> On 8/17/05, *A. Khattri* <ajai@bway.net <mailto:ajai@bway.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Ian P. Christian wrote:
>>
>>     > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 13:01, Darko Luketic wrote:
>>     > > and imho thats not really the way it should be, apache should
>>     be restarted
>>     > > once a day not potentially every 15 minutes.
>>     >
>>     > I don't see why it should be restarted at all. If you're not
>>     binding to any
>>     > new ports, a reload should be fine rather then a restart.
>>
>>     Just curious: would "apachectl graceful" load new vhosts added
>>     since the
>>     last restart?
>>
>>
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>> Michael Crute wrote:
>>
>> The gaceful command will actually cause apache to restart but only
>> after all pending transfers complete. I believe that this is the
>> default behavior of /etc/init.d/apache2 restart the command you are
>> looking for is reload.
>>
> No, that's definitely NOT what he is after - since you are adding new
> vhosts these will never be involved in any ongoing transfers.
> Instead, reload will break off all current transfers - not a good idea
> on a heavily loaded server.
> Graceful is fine.

what about just calling:

 # killall -HUP apache2

this will cause the httpd to reload it's config, not?

Christian

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