> If you don't mind a second or two of down time then you can use
quoted text
> something like this in newsyslog.conf as a restart command:
> 
> "apachectl stop;sleep 1;apachctl start;sleep 10;apachectl start"
> 
> The first sleep gives apache a second to finish active requests before
> trying to start again.  The second sleep and start is to catch the case
> where the first start fails because apache is still running.

I have a script which does the following:

+ rotates logs
+ calls apachectl stop (twice, with sleep 2 after each call)
+ calls apachectl stop and greps the output to make sure it is stopped
  (looks for 'not running')
+ if I don't find not running, pages me
+ run apachectl startssl

This is all in a wrapper script which then calls awstats
after a successful rotate and restart.

Works for us.

JohnM

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