# reloading a service

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/reloading-a-service/11530>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reloading-a-service/11530 "2012-05-10T13:36:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Amberkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Abhishek\_Amberkar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Abhishek_Amberkar)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reloading-a-service/11530/1 "2012-05-10T13:36:40Z")

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Hello All,

Is there any plan to have “state=reloaded” or similar in “service” module? Most of the times whenever I make configuration changes, I prefer to reload the service rather than restarting it. Mostly in case of webserver, I can not afford to restart it, since it affects active connections. Or does Ansible provide any facility using which I can send SIGHUP to any service?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reloading-a-service/11530/2 "2012-05-10T13:40:52Z")

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Perfectly logical.

There is no plan, but patches would be accepted.

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Johnston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Christopher\_Johnston](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christopher_Johnston)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reloading-a-service/11530/3 "2012-05-11T15:09:07Z")

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I sent a git pull in for this