The following reply was made to PR pkg/33589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
To: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
Cc: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: pkg/33589 (apache ignores 'reload' from rc.d script as well as 'graceful' from apachectl(8))
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:36:09 +0100

 On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:28:04AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
 > > not easy within minutes on a production system! i'll report within the 
 > > next hours...
 > 
 > just tried on a customers intranet machine:
 > 
 > NetBSD server.dv-art.com 2.1.0_STABLE NetBSD 2.1.0_STABLE (NETFINITY) 
 > #0: Mon May 15 07:25:27 CEST 2006 
 > root@server.dv-art.com:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/NETFINITY i386
 > 
 > apache-2.0.58       Apache HTTP (Web) server, version 2
 > 
 > and there i have the same problem as described; reload via rc script 
 > does *not* work as well as 'apachectl graceful' does *not* work. 
 > stopping and starting via rc script *works*.
 
 It works for me under NetBSD-i386 3.0_STABLE. Can you please "ktrace"
 "apachectl" to see what it is doing (or not doing)?
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/