[wellylug] apache2ctl vs apache2 restart

[Jim Cheetham]

On 01/05/07, Sigurd Magnusson <sigurd at silverstripe.com> wrote:
> Why do you think Debian has apache2 restart instead?

It's a consistent interface. For all service applications there will
be an init.d scrpt, and they will all implement "start", "stop" and
"restart". Debian lives by consistency :-)

>  I've sometimes
>  found the apache2 restart stuffs up apache by running two copies that

That would therefore be a fault specific to the Debian scripts
packaged with apache.

>  Can I just do "graceful" for logrotate to work (i.e. for apache to
>  reopen its log files?)

Yes, http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/stopping.html tells us that
'graceful' will cause a re-open of log files.

-jim