Graham Leggett wrote: > > 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).
Or change apachectl to act silently to assist httpd.init. In fact, a silent mode makes a lot of sense, httpd.init wouldn't be the only consumer. apachectl should be called-not-exec'ed, IMHO (just as apachectl calls envvars).
