On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Evan Platt <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 04:52 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: > >> My main objective is (on Apache with Windows) to reload the configuration >> without interrupting any request still being processed on any TCP >> connection. >> >> I believe the command httpd.exe -k restart was designed to do that. > > Not really. Have a look at > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/stopping.html > which shows the difference between graceful and restart. I believe Windows has a graceful stop (that eventually does forcibly tear down a connection) but does not have a graceful restart. I was abstaining from the thread in the hopes that Bill Wrowe was lurking. It's just a matter of not being implemented, probably complicated by the single-child model. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx