Very Computer

Note: This is for NCSA httpd server.

Questions:

1) Is it necessary to restart the httpd program,
everytime the srm.conf is modified?

Eg.  Adding new entries to the ScriptAlias section??

2) If not, how does it knows when the next server request
will take into effect?

3) How to restart httpd server without ROOT intervention,
if the person in charge of httpd server maintenance does not
have root access?  Yes, the server has to run at port 80.

Thank you.

yes..

Quote:> Eg.  Adding new entries to the ScriptAlias section??
> 2) If not, how does it knows when the next server request
> will take into effect?

if the restart is succesfull.. immediately

Quote:> 3) How to restart httpd server without ROOT intervention,
> if the person in charge of httpd server maintenance does not
> have root access?  Yes, the server has to run at port 80.

what dont you do a c wrapper with setuid to root
something like
--------------------------
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
  execv("THE_COMMAND_YOU_WANT_TO_DO", argv);

Quote:}

----------------------------

the command could be a script or what ever doing
kill -HUP http_pid

Quote:> Thank you.

        There's probably other solution, lets see it :-)

--
ciao, alain

What if you run the server inetd instead of standalone?

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