Am 30. Nov, 2001 schwätzte David Mandala so:

> This is a bad answer, Redhat does not restart Apache correctly, it will
> indeed restart the Server but it will stop and start it which is ungraceful
> at best.

Her answer was correct, normally. Use the init scripts. Most of the time the
quirks of the service have been accounted for.

If there's a reload option, e.g. bind, then it's better to use that if
you're just wanting to reread config files.

If init scripts do the wrong thing, then submit a bug report and get them
fixed at the distribution.

ciao,

der.hans
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