From: Astrid Malo
apachectl graceful
will send the
- right signal for your platform.USR1
to
+ be used for a graceful restart, an alternative signal may be used (such
+ as WINCH
). The command apachectl graceful
+ will send the right signal for your platform.This code is designed to always respect the process control directive of the MPMs, so the number of processes and threads @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ been created, then create enough to pick up the slack. Hence the code tries to maintain both the number of children appropriate for the current load on the server, and respect your wishes with the - StartServers parameter.
+StartServers
parameter.
Users of the mod_status
will notice that the server statistics are not
@@ -141,9 +141,9 @@
command line argument (see httpd). This still will not
guarantee that the server will restart correctly. To check the
semantics of the configuration files as well as the syntax, you
- can try starting httpd as a non-root user. If there are no
+ can try starting httpd
as a non-root user. If there are no
errors it will attempt to open its sockets and logs and fail
- because it's not root (or because the currently running httpd
+ because it's not root (or because the currently running httpd
already has those ports bound). If it fails for any other
reason then it's probably a config file error and the error
should be fixed before issuing the graceful restart.
diff --git a/docs/manual/stopping.xml b/docs/manual/stopping.xml
index 13e2061d78..6238530220 100644
--- a/docs/manual/stopping.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/stopping.xml
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@
it with a child from the new generation of the
configuration, which begins serving new requests immediately.
apachectl graceful
will send the
- right signal for your platform.USR1
to
+ be used for a graceful restart, an alternative signal may be used (such
+ as WINCH
). The command apachectl graceful
+ will send the right signal for your platform.This code is designed to always respect the process control directive of the MPMs, so the number of processes and threads @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ been created, then create enough to pick up the slack. Hence the code tries to maintain both the number of children appropriate for the current load on the server, and respect your wishes with the - StartServers parameter.
+Users of the httpd
as a non-root user. If there are no
errors it will attempt to open its sockets and logs and fail
- because it's not root (or because the currently running httpd
+ because it's not root (or because the currently running httpd
already has those ports bound). If it fails for any other
reason then it's probably a config file error and the error
should be fixed before issuing the graceful restart.