Martin Langhoff writes: > >>how can I restart the root httpd server from within modperl? > > Use `at` to schedule it a minute in the future -- effectively forking it.
Yes, also thought of that but the smallest unit of 'at' is minutes and I want to restart the server immediately. > Note that normally apache starts as root and runs as an unprivileged > user. If this is the case you _can_ achieve it using a suid wrapper or > sudo, but you'll risk opening a very serious security hole in the > system. So don't. Instead, run apache as a regular user, on a high port. I used sudo. Dirk
