On Sunday, 15 April 2018 21:50:57 CEST Jan Heitkötter wrote: > The hooks in Let’s Encrypt’s conffile say “apachectl -k”; the manpage > does not explain this option. Omitting -k makes things work:
options unknown to apachectl are passed to apache2 and apache2 -k start tells apache2 to do a normal start and go into the background. But this means that the systemd magic that apachectl does for "apachectl start" is not done for "apachectl -k start". Not sure how to fix this. In general, it is not possible to map all options to systemd actions. For example, one could do apachectl -DSOME_CONFIG_DEFINE -k start to start apache with some special config options. Even worse, "-k start" is the default if no other action option (like -k, -t, -l, -L, ...) is given.
