* Dan Wilga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-09 10:19]:
> It's most likely that the stop is actually taking longer than you
> expect to process. Apachectl just sends the "kill" and doesn't wait
> around for everything to exit. Depending on what each of the children
> is doing, this can take awhile. So the better approach is not to
> "stop" again but, if "start" fails, wait a few seconds and try the
> start again.
For exactly this reason, I always modify apachectl so that the restart
option looks like:
restart)
timeout=${2:-5}
count=0
$0 stop
while [ $count -lt $timeout ]; do
echo -n ". "
sleep 1
count=`expr $count + 1`
done
echo ""
$0 start
;;
This will sleep for $2 (or 5 seconds) between stopping and starting.
The sleep ensures that the start doesn't get called too quickly.
Use it like:
apachectl restart 10
to wait 10 seconds, or
apachectl restart
to wait the default 5.
(darren)
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