On a whim, I would try writing a second script to do the actual shutdown and restart of Apache.
Then have your mod_perl program either run it in the background (with a &) or fork it into another process. Just a thought. Dennis S.T.O.U.T. = Synthetic Technician Optimized for Ultimate Troublshooting ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Lutzebaeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 13 16 Subject: How to restart the root server from within modperl? > > Hi, > > how can I restart the root httpd server from within modperl? My > problem is that when I call system() with say apachectl restart the > father process is stopped killing the children including the apachectl > itself. So it can't start of again. Can I call something like a reload > of httpd.conf? > > Why I want to do this? I have a set of configurations and file links > for different versions for my modperl application which I want to activate > from the modperl application itself (having a HTML user interface). > > Thanks for help, > > Dirk
