Should libapache2-mod-shib2 restart Apache?

Scott Cantor cantor.2 at osu.edu
Sat Jan 9 18:28:53 UTC 2010


Russ Allbery wrote on 2010-01-09:
>> Does that change the bits running inside any of the child processes?
> 
> It does an apache2ctl graceful, which respawns all the child processes, so
> I *think* so, but I never was entirely clear on how much apache2ctl
> graceful does and whether it reloads modules.

Me either. The problem is that I'm pretty sure the master process is what
loads the modules, and the children are forked, so that would suggest they
wouldn't be reloaded.

-- Scott





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