Ok. Thanks for the replies everybody. Collectively, I'm looking for a
solution that DOES NOT require an Apache restart, or one that requires me
to use a kill/killall command. I'm not in front of the server 100%, and I
won't have access to telnet/ssh in to issue commands.
Ultimately, I'm looking for something I can do totally from within Perl.
>You might have better luck just having your app check -M against the file
>and reload as needed. If you don't want to take the hit on every request,
>you can just use a counter or a "last checked" time kept in a global, and
>check every 10 minutes or 100 requests or whatever.
From various other posts, I'm understanding that I can do what I want by
defining a subroutine in my startup.pl that would reload the file, and then
I could call that subroutine whenever I determine the file is out of date
(either through a cache, request, or -M system)...
>Keep in mind, if you load this data during startup (in the parent) it will
>be shared, but reloading it later will make a separate copy in each child,
>chewing up a large amount of memory. You might have better luck using dbm
That is something I was hoping I wouldn't here ;) ... Even reloading the
file into the same variable in my startup.pl wouldn't cause the parent to
share it with new children?
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