Re: restarting daemons

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  8 Oct, Lev Lvovsky wrote about "restarting daemons"
> 
> Hello,
> 
> could someone please let me know how to restart all of the apache www
> daemons that are running so that it'll read the changes made in the
> httpd.conf file?
> 
> 'apache restart' doesn't do anything
> 
> is there a generally accepted way of doing this for all 'net daemons?
> 

The Debian way is to do:

/etc/init.d/apache reload

Which just calls the Apache control interface(see man apachectl)

/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful

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