Maxim Nechaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to restart or graceful restart apache server from one of his > child. It is possible? If yes, how to do this more correctly?
The main Apache process runs as root, and each Apache child process runs as a less-privileged user, and so would not have permission to signal the main process to tell it to reload. You could use a conventional perl script (ie not mod_perl) which is setuid root (though you'd need to be extraordinarily careful), or have an external daemon running as root which accepted restart requests on a UNIX socket, then have your script send these requests. ----ScottG.
