Dan Poirier wrote: >> Redhat's init scripts don't work anything like the apachectl script, and >> trying to call one from the other causes the exact problem you mention - >> loss of environment variables, and all round weirdness. > > Maybe I'm just slow getting back up to speed after the holiday, but I'm > not seeing how it would cause a problem. Could you please expand on > that?
On a Redhat machine (Fedora/RHEL/Centos), search /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions for functions called "daemon", "status" and "killproc". These functions provide similar but incompatible functionality to that provided by apachectl, and only exist on Redhat derived machines. The startup script is far too trivial to justify jumping through hoops to try and make apachectl work like Redhat's init. It's caused us enough grief already, thus the fix. Regards, Graham --
