Re: Auto-create repository?

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:53:04PM -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > >IMHO, that's a task for a CGI script. You could do that in about 10
> > >lines of python.
> >
> > I tried doing this (but not with Python) but I couldn't figure out
> > how to restart httpd. In other words, after the repository is
> > created and httpd.conf is updated to serve it, the CGI can not kill
> > and restart httpd to make the new repository visible.
>
> Yes, it can kill it! With a SIGUSR1 signal, of course. :-)
>
> This command will do the job for you:
>
> apachectl graceful

You can't always issue the signal to restart Apache. If the CGI executes
under suexec, for example.

Also, (and I'm not sure if this is the right answer), but you may also need
to be 'root' if your Apache was started as root (then downgraded).

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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