Re: [cobalt-users] Viewing sites before propogation

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:18 pm, Andy Jacobs wrote:
> Hopefully another simple one:
>
> What's the difference between httpd stop followed by httpd start and httpd
> restart?
>
> I just did the mod for viewing sites before propogation and it wouldn't
> work until I did a stop/start rather than restart.
>

You should read the script /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd its not that dificult
  hard-restart)
        [ -f /var/run/httpd.pid ] && {
            kill `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`
        }
        rm -f /var/run/httpd.pid
        sleep 2
        $HTTPD -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
        ;;
  restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
  reload)
        [ -f /var/run/httpd.pid ] && {
            kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`
        }
        ;;
Note that restart does just what you did. stop start
But hard-restart is probably closer, stop delay start
Normally when changing configurations you should use reload
which does a graceful restart, sends init to the process.

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Gerald Waugh