On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:10:24AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>   8212 httpd    open("/var/run/httpd.pid", 0, 0x1b6) = 5
>   8212 httpd    read(0x5, 0x81fdbe8, 0xd)          = 6
>        "21800\n"
>   8212 httpd    read(0x5, 0x81fdbee, 0x7)          = 0
>        ""
>   8212 httpd    close(0x5)                         = 0
>   8212 httpd    kill(0x5528, 0)                    = 0
>   8212 httpd    kill(0x5528, 0x1e)                 = 0

It looks to me like "apachectl" did The Right Thing(TM) by sending
SIGUSR1 to the "httpd" process. I can imagine two reasons why
the reload didn't work nevertheless:

1.) Because it is a graceful reload it won't happen before the HTTP daemon
    has handled all existing connection. You can verify this by using
    "apachectl graceful" and wait a few minutes.

2.) There's a bug in Apache 2.0.x.

I'm leaning towards the first guess because it works fine on my
mostly idle Apache 2.0.58.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/