Re: How to recognize server shutdown?

[Perrin Harkins]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> Is there any way to distinguish between a child being shutdown (say
> maxrequests has been exceeded) versus all of Apache going down (kill
> signal sent to the original process or something).

Register an END block in your startup.pl, and have it check it's PID to
see if it's the parent.
- Perrin