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Re: Security implication of using force-reload instead of restart ?



On Sunday 09 January 2011, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> 
wrote:
> > No. Apache unloads and reloads modules on a graceful restart,
> > unless a modules takes special measures to prevent that. You can
> > check that with lsof or checkrestart. But libapache2-mod-php5's
> > behaviour is not optimal for other reasons (see #589386).
> 
> Shouldn't libapache2-mod-php5 be deprecated in favor of PHP via
> FastCGI anyway? Would avoid this and other issues.

mod_php won't go away quickly. But having an out-of-the box usable 
php+fastcgi configuration in squeeze+1 would be nice. Volunteers 
welcome ;-)


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