On Wed 05 Feb 2003, Miernik wrote: > > When I want to stop a download, I close the browser and then do this: > > # /etc/init.d/wwwoffle stop > # /etc/init.d/wwwoffle start > > BTW: Doing /etc/init.d/wwwoffle restart often leaves wwwoffle > unstarted. It seems that there is a delay needed between stop and > start. This should go to the Debian maintainer, but I post it here > too, because other distros might have this problem too.
This is probably due to the fact that wwwoffle was downloading a file over a slow link at the moment that it is stopped, which apparently means it takes some time to clean up (i.e. to fully terminate), and when it is started again, the socket or so is still in use and the new wwwoffle can't bind to it. Do you have any log messages from such an occasion? That should say exactly what happened. Normally, a restart works just fine. Paul
