Comment 52 for bug 1832182

What? Why did you effectively remove both `apachectl graceful` and `systemctl reload apache2` and not leave any alternative?

We're using this pretty much every day to avoid downtime on our mod_security web filter, since it takes a while to do a full restart of Apache with 600+ vhosts:

vegar@webwash02:~$ sudo apache2ctl -S | grep -c namevhost
667

vegar@webwash02:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ sudo apachectl -t
Syntax OK
vegar@webwash02:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ sudo apachectl graceful
Invoking 'systemctl restart apache2'.
Use 'systemctl status apache2' for more info.

I definitely did not expect a change like this to just be implemented in an LTS version with no notice in security-announce.

So every single time we add a new vhost to our web filter, we'll have to do something like this instead of just running `sudo apachectl graceful`:

vegar@webwash02:~$ sudo apachectl -t
Syntax OK
vegar@webwash02:~$ systemctl status apache2 | grep "Main PID"
   Main PID: 97192 (apache2)
vegar@webwash02:~$ sudo kill -HUP 97192

This definitely makes things easier, thanks.