Thanks for inputs folks - much appreciated. How could I have not stumbled across the Apache::Reload module (guess it didn't bother me enough to really look into very well)... Thanks for pointing out the example in the mod_perl Developer's Cookbook as well jeffa, just picked it up a bit ago and should have noted the recipe/part you mention right at the start of Chapter 8.

When I am changing local modules it is on a seperate devel machine so not a big deal for stop/starting Apache if doing that way (and incidently I would go bezerk if anything took 10 minutes to reboot - no wait, the Windows 2000 installed laptop I was given at work comes in around 4 1/2 minutes, good thing I partitioned off half the drive and installed Linux on and mostly use that).

Was just thinking that there had to be another way (or ways) out there, and now I know. Thanks again for the inputs.

nandeya