This sounds like the solution until the new "real pipes" solution is implemented. Thank you all. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 02:59 PM Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Philip J Dicke wrote: > >> Windows does not seem to have the "apachectl graceful" command that >> unix does. >> The only solution that I see is to run apache, where it writes >> straight to a >> log file, write a script that shuts down httpd, moves the log file >> and restarts >> httpd. > > >I've had good success using the following approach: > >1) move the logfiles(s) to a new name, with a timestamp or whatever >2) Send httpd.exe -n ServiceName -k graceful (wrowe tells us that >restart and graceful are the same thing on Windows) >3) Wait a second, a minute, an hour or whatever you need to make sure >the old httpd child has in fact gone away and has stopped writing to >the open file descriptor of the old logfile. >4) Do what you need to do to the old logfile (compress, explode into >vhosts, analyze, whatever, it's yours now) > >The fact that httpd keeps writing to the old logfile ensures that you >don't miss any log entries, and the graceful restart ensures >uninterrupted service. As wrowe says, the service interface only >knows to kill the program under consideration entirely, and then start >it up again. This is obviously too harsh if you expect to keep >serving requests, and fortunately not necessary. > >S. > >-- >Sander Temme >sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx >PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF > > > Philip J. Dicke Penn State ARL JIATFS Support pjd130@xxxxxxx 305-293-5481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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