Re: apache reload v. apache restart

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Monday 15 November 2004 09:36, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Sunday, 14.11.2004 at 11:14 +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 01 November 2004 12:20, Dave Ewart wrote:
> > > System: Woody, fully up to date, runs Apache
> > >
> > > Recently, after an 'apt-get upgrade', Apache has been dying when 
doing
> > a
> > > logrotate.  I have identified the source of the problem -
> > > '/etc/ini.d/apache reload' kills Apache.
> > >
> > > So, I've changed it to '/etc/ini.d/apache restart' in the 
logrotate
> > > scripts and this seems OK.
> >
> > I'm still trying to find a workaround.  'restart' did not work for 
me.
> > Doing it by hand from the command line 'stop' followed by 'start' 
works
> > reliably, but when I put it in the logrotate script it failed too:
> >
> >    invoke-rc.d: initscript apache, action "start" failed.
> >
> > So I am still restarting manually every time.
> 
> That is certainly very strange - I see the same behaviour in the
> logrotates as on the command line, i.e. if it fails on the command 
line,
> it fails in logrotate; if it works on the command line, it works in
> logrotate too.

I've added 'sleep 5' after the stop and before the start.  Maybe that 
will do the trick.  I'll know next sunday...  oops, a sudden thought: I 
probably need to go back and put a semicolon after that.

-- 
richard