Hi, On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 15:54, Brian Mathis<brian.mathis+centosdocs at gmail.com> wrote: > PS. You could also "service reload" instead of restart for a more > graceful reconfiguration. And: # service httpd graceful For an even more graceful reconfiguration. "reload" will kill connections that already open (and might be in the middle of a transfer) while "graceful" will leave those processes alive until they are finished with their current connection, then they will die and new processes will be started. HTH, Filipe