On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:49 +1100, Voytek wrote: > <quote who="Matthew Palmer"> > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:07:59PM +1100, Voytek wrote: > >> if I alter httpd.conf, will the alterations get picked on log rollover > >> restart ? > > > As far as I can tell, the apache config will be reread on reload after a > > log > > rotation. The wisdom of relying on this course of action, however, is > > questionable: if you have a problem in your config, you may not have an > > apache server for a few hours... > > yes, I realize that.. however, I'm just talking about adding another vhost > .conf file, not really altering apache setup > > it's on a couple of ocassions that restarting apache to relaod config has > given me grief (there were no errors in httpd.conf, fwiw, just, shutting > apache seemed to have caused unrecoverable problem.)
In which case you're still better off issuing /etc/init.d/apache reload when you make the change - if it's going to have an 'unrecoverable problem', better that it do it when you're around than at some strange hour when logrotate runs and you're sleeping. J. -- Jan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
