thus tron%netbsd.org@localhost spake:
Synopsis: apache ignores 'reload' from rc.d script as well as 'graceful' from apachectl(8) State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: tron%netbsd.org@localhost State-Changed-When: Wed, 31 May 2006 02:18:17 +0000 State-Changed-Why: Which Apache package are you talking about? It works fine for me with the "apache2" package.
apache-2.0.55nb7 Apache HTTP (Web) server, version 2