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aneuryzm
Asked: 2010-11-07 08:11:54 +0800 CST

Lighttpd restart and force-reload commands

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What is the difference between the following

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

and

/etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

?

lighttpd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    On my platform (ubutnu), I found that they are the same. Just looked the file and found:

    case "$1" in

.... processing other options

;;
restart|force-reload)
  processing restart and force-reload options

    For other services, it might be different.

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  2. This can also be achieved using Signals. See the Blogpost about Lighty's Angel for an overview of the Signals supported by lighttpd.

    In short

    • SIGHUP leads to a graceful restart (config reloads)
    • SIGINT is graceful shutdown as now
    • all unhandled signals lead to a restart of the lighttpd process

    The debian Policy Manual also explains the different parameters:

    • start
      start the service,

    • stop
      stop the service,

    • restart
      stop and restart the service if it's already running, otherwise start the service

    • reload
      cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without actually stopping and restarting the service,

    • force-reload
      cause the configuration to be reloaded if the service supports this, otherwise restart the service.

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