On 3/22/2012 4:58 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote: > Thats too fast not all threads can close in just miliseconds you know. > Add "sleep 5" between stop and start and you should be fine. The only concern with waiting for 5 seconds is that it might not be enough if a request is still finishing up. I often have the same problem. I implement this inside my apachectl scripts after sending a shutdown signal: while [ -f $PIDFILE];do echo sleep;sleep 1;done It keeps the script spinning until httpd removes the pidfile and also lets you know how many times it sleeps. This is particularly useful when scripting startup/shutdowns. -- Daniel Ruggeri --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx