2009/7/25 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net>: > On Friday 24 July 2009 14:57:13 Axel wrote: > >> So far, so good. But what about the other daemons that still seem to run >> after upgrade (Apache, Courier IMAP etc)? Are the new version running >> fine after the upgrade, or should I set AFTERINSTALL to do a restart of >> these daemons, to make sure they run the upgraded version? > > I don't know about Courier, but Apache is generally not affected by on-disk > versions of libraries. The CGI programs however, are, since they're started up > and shutdown with each request (or in the case of FCGI in X requests) - the > Apache workers are spawned from the root process and use that process image. > > So there is no definite need to shut down Apache and disrupt service. If a > running webserver is important to you, I also would not do this automatically. > For example, jpeg could be upgraded before Apache and a module for Apache > needing it, yet this module is depending on Apache and therefore not > recompiled yet. As a result, this module tries to load a non-existing library > and Apache restart will fail. > -- > Mel
If you want to restart Apache without killing existing sessions, just use amnesiac# apachectl graceful However, watch out for Mel's point about missing libraries.... But I would still do that; downtime after forcing a restart is better than downtime at some random point when it discovers the missing libraries.... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
