Lighttpd restart and force-reload commands

lighttpd

What is the difference between the following

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

and

/etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

?

Best Answer

On my platform (ubutnu), I found that they are the same. Just looked the file and found:

case "$1" in

.... processing other options

;;
restart|force-reload)
  processing restart and force-reload options

For other services, it might be different.

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