On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Matthew Gregory <matthew+apache@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My question is this: how can I gracefully close apache? The docs say to use > "httpd -k stop" but on our target platforms this always tries to stop the > service but we are actually running as a console. There is mention of using > kill on unix but I cannot find a suitable windows equivilant. I've used e a little windows utility, SendSignal.exe, to send cntrl-break to a similar a program in some automation. http://www.latenighthacking.com/projects/2003/sendSignal/ Unfortunately it didn't look like any of the sysinsternals tools would do it, but I may have just missed it. -- 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