Thanks for the replies. I had the impression that apachetcl -k stop will not return until httpd stopped. Cheers, Silviu On Mar 22, 2012, at 23:45 , Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx