Bug 83

Summary:	/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart doesn't always start
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Edward Schlunder <zilym>
Component:	apache	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Edward Schlunder 1998-11-16 00:47:28 UTC

Sometimes when you do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart, the
httpd server doesn't start back up properly because the port
is still busy. There needs to be a slight wait between
shutting down and then trying to start back up.

Comment 1 seva 1998-11-19 14:25:59 UTC

I can confirm this.  Don't know if the reason is right or not, but
restart doesn't alwasy work.

Although most of the time you want 'reload' option.

/Seva

Comment 2 zblaxell 1998-12-13 01:04:59 UTC

Isn't that "slight wait" on the order of 120 seconds?

One could use something like netcat to try to bind the port in a loop,
pausing a few seconds at a time until it succeeds.  Then again, httpd
could do that for us anyway.

Comment 3 Preston Brown 1998-12-16 17:15:59 UTC

The next release of apache will include a httpd init file which is
closely modeled after the 'apachectl' utility that the apache group
ships, which we have found people are familiar with.  It does server
restarts in a different way -- much more like server reloads.
Hopefully this will fix the problem.  If you want an explicit 'stop'
followed by a 'start' you will specify it as such.