In the old model, to do a graceful restart of httpd (without breaking existing connections), I would do
sudo service httpd graceful
But in the new world of systemctl, there's no such option. What should I do instead?
But in the new world of systemctl, there's no such option.
That's actually incorrect. The equivalent command on systemctl is reload, which does a graceful restart if one is configured for the service.
This is documented in the systemctl man page:
In other words: for the example case of Apache, this will reload Apache's httpd.conf in the web server, not the apache.service systemd unit file.
@darkfader "systemctl reload httpd" DOES fire "/usr/sbin/httpd -k graceful" or what do you think the line "ExecReload=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k graceful" does?
mattdm is right, this is a critical difference. you can lose countless hours debugging until you finally find out that some module changes are not triggered by a "reload". The only way to still get a working system is using /usr/sbin/httpd -k graceful.
Asked: 2012-11-08 20:12:09 -0500
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The command you are looking for is
[sudo] apachectl gracefulfor another command, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
I guess so. It sure was nice to have all of the control options in once place before rather than having to search for the appropriate control command for each program. Oh well.