William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > Is it reasonable to simply provision apachectl as httpd.init, perhaps even > as a symlink?
Unfortunately not, no. Redhat provides a library of functions to be used by startup scripts that daemonise processes, keep track of pids, and do all the cute displaying of "OK" or "Failed", and make the "service" command work properly. Apachectl, while similar to Redhat's init script, has different semantics when faced with "restart", and the standard Redhat setup doesn't work at all. We would either need to change apachectl to work like Redhat (triggering a storm of protest from people who do use apachectl and would ask "if it wasn't broken why did you fix it"), or change Redhat to work like apachectl (not worth the effort). Regards, Graham --
