On Friday 15 January 2010, Christopher Thorjussen wrote: > I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a > Apache Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new ".rpmnew" config files that > are made, I saw that the logrotate command for apache was changed. In 5.3 > it did a reload, but in 5.4 it does a hard kill: 5.4 does a "kill -HUP" which is what "service httpd reload" does too. The -HUP signal causes http to re-read stuff rather than shutting down. Still, I don't really understand why 5.4 doesn't use "service reload" which seems more "correct" (and the init.d script does a little bit of checking before the kill -HUP too). *shrug* Peter > CentOS 5.3: ... > postrotate > /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true > CentOS 5.4: ... > postrotate > /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || > true endscript
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