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.

-Mike

On 8/17/05, A. Khattri <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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