[NTLUG:Discuss] Apache

[Josh Bellamy]

If you just want to ensure the site is idle, this is what 'apachectl
graceful' does.  It sends a SIGUSR1 and will wait for any existing
connections to finish, reload the httpd.conf, and reopen the log files.

Hope this helps

Josh

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 14:24, Greg Edwards wrote:
> My poor old Apache server needed to be bounced today, and only 50 days 
> up time.
> 
> I had 5 children that showed no PID but were registering CPU usage time. 
>   My question is, is there a way to get Apache to drop children without 
> bouncing the entire server?  This isn't a real big issue but it can be a 
> pain trying to make sure the site is idle so it can be bounced.
> 
> TIA,