[plug] restarting services without rebooting

[sol]

Sorry, I mis-explained my problem. ;-)
This relates to the regular unix user "webmaster". webmaster's home directory 
coincides with Apache's home directory. I'm happy with apache's settings, but 
need the webmaster to have his own home away form apache's document root 
because otherwise I'll have real problems. Specifically I've set up a webmail 
programme that deposits mail in the unix user's home directory. Everything's 
fine with the other users, just not webmaster. 
If I just mkdir /home/webmaster (with approriate permissions) and edit 
/etc/passwd's will everything be okay. Or do I need to restart something for 
Linux to realize that the webmaster's home directory has moved?

cheers.
sol


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:02 pm, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, quoth sol:
> > This is only a small problem. I've got a webserver with the user
> > "webmaster" 's home directory set to /var/www (as opposed to
> > /home/webmaster). For reasons that aren't worth explaining I need to
> > change that so that there is a /home/webmaster. I can do this and edit
> > /etc/passwd so the new home directory is set, but how can I get the
> > system to recognise this without rebooting? In other words which
> > service/daemon do I need to restart to get the system to recognise the
> > new configuration?
>
> You missed out the most important bit: what webserver software are you
> running?
>
> FWIW Apache doesn't care what you put in /etc/passwd - you set the
> "DocumentRoot" in httpd.conf (or srm.conf for older versions) instead
> and then run /etc/init.d/apache reload (or /etc/init.d/httpd reload for RH
> variants)
>
>  - Matt