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From: "Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org>
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Subject: RE: detecting stop|graceful|restart from httpd.conf
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:42:21 +0100
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> From: Stas Bekman [mailto:stas@stason.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:14 PM

> My last post included a patch providing the mechanism to know when the server 
> starts and immediately restarts. Unfortunately it won't work for 'httpd -k 
> [stop|graceful|restart]' which can't reach the pool of the running server.
> 
> We have users asking for a flag which will allow them to disable the execution 
> of their startup code when the server is shutdown. Can the mpm architecture be 
> extended to set some flag telling what state it's in (for the benefit of the 
> config phase and may be others as well)?

Now this would be useful.  Especially since I don't want all the initialization
(with all the potential failures during) when I'm trying to shut down the server.
Ever had a config error when trying to shut down your server?


Sander