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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Stop/Start vs. Restart Post 302395468 by jlliagre on Tuesday 16th of February 2010 07:43:38 AM
Old 02-16-2010
There might be a slight difference depending on what service you are restarting.
Stop/start will always result in a small interruption of service while some applications are able to react to a signal telling them to "restart" by reading again their configuration file but keep the service alive while doing so.
 

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