[NBLUG/talk] Apache Logs..

ME dugan at passwall.com
Wed Apr 2 18:50:05 PST 2003


ME said:
> When stopping apache, a SIGHUP will ask the apache "child processes"
> (started by apache based on the number of "MinServers" you specify in the
> httpd.conf, or number of servers running when the crinjob starts.) A
> SIGHUP is kind of a nice way of asking apache to kill itself gracefully.
[chop]

This was wrong. Sorry. HUP tells apache to reread config files/restart,
SIGTERM asks it to die, and SIGKILL has the system kill it. (TERM != KILL)





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