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ral0r3us 07-29-2008 07:51 PM
How to force apache To reload it's conf file?????
 
Before you jump to answer: "why dont you do /apachectl graceful or kill -HUD "cat apache.pid" etc.." i tell you that this simply wont do the trick :(
Anyway, what i need is to force apache re-read it's configuration file without killing any child (i use apache2 with prefork)
Why? Simple i need to be able to configure MaxClients and KeepAliveTimeout online.
Any ideas??

blacky_5251 07-29-2008 11:37 PM
Perhaps "kill -HUP" would be better instead of kill "-HUD"? Or perhaps that's just a typo and you are already using HUP.

The "kill -HUP" approach is what the "service httpd reload" command will do, so if that doesn't work, I don't know what would.

ral0r3us 07-30-2008 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by blacky_5251 (Post 3230518)
Perhaps "kill -HUP" would be better instead of kill "-HUD"? Or perhaps that's just a typo and you are already using HUP.

The "kill -HUP" approach is what the "service httpd reload" command will do, so if that doesn't work, I don't know what would.
Yup m8 it was a typo. But i think i found the function that apache uses
to fetch the MaxClients directive. I think it's prefork.c (for mpm=prefork)
but it's a royal mess in there so we'll see if i manage lol.:p


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