regarding service

[mummaneni]

hi everybody
I have one silly doubt about service but i am not getting clear idea
whatis the diffrence between restarting and reloading the service
ex:
service httpd restart
service httpd reload

thanks
inadvance

[anomie]

You will have to check the script itself for an answer. In general, I think restart literally restarts the service. Reload should leave the service up but force it to re-read its config files.

Pretty handy to know if you do not want a brief downtime in your service while it restarts.