Re: Hosting Systems

From: domreg (domreg@on-the-net.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 13:09:44 EST


On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Csongor Fagyal wrote:

> Yes, actually issuing a "reload" command does not help all the time: it only
> reloads some of the config. OTOH this is logical: you cannot just change for
> example the SSL cert _during_ an active connection. So, you have to break
> that connection first - I guess its risky :-) to wait for all connections to
> end and THEN reaload, as that is unpredictable

Apache has done this for some time, on a soft reset, it waits for all
connections to close before reloading.

And I just checked apachectl does a HUP on a 'restart', there is no reload
command.

> - which means you stop and
> start the server... and that means you have to HUP.

HUP is a soft one.
stop/start is a hard reset - this does a KILL.

> BTW, I wasassuming that a reload does not reload the SSL cert, as Rich
> suggested.

Yup, AFAIK it takes a hard reset (stop and start) to reload a cert.

Rich Roth
Domain Registrar @ On-the-Net.com



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