Stephen Reppucci wrote:
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> See my suggested refinement below (I don't like to leave the server
> down any longer than needed...8^):
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, darren chamberlain wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> while [ -f $PIDFILE -a $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.
>
On Debian, if you use the /etc/init.d/apache[-perl] script for
restarting, it uses the start-stop-daemon program to do essentially the
same thing. (Another reason I like Debian :-).
