hey thijs, On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:18:14PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > It seems that other packages are reloading Apache, so I'd like to put > this question here to see what behaviour would be best. And in that > case, incorporate it into the webapps policy so we all act the same way. i think reloading is the most sensible approach to take. re*start*ing might affect other parts of the site, apps, clients, etc, but reloading shouldn't. furthermore, doing nothing might cause problems later on if there is a problem with the new configuration, and the admin won't know about it until later. of course, the apache2 package currently disregards the concept of reloading, and restarts the server anyway, but i think we should still call reload on principle and hope that they work that little problem out :) anyway, this would be a good addition to 5.1.2 in the docs i think. sean
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