I believe given his configuration that he has compiled Apache from
scratch.  Thus, there isn't any setup for the init scripts that you
mentioned.

On 09 Jul 2001 21:44:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jim
> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:16 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG]apache 1.3.12
> >
> >
> > I know that Apache needs to start as root, but there is a directive that
> > allows it to change its UID/GID somewhere in the config file<s>.
> >
> >
> ------
> Redhat uses a very conventional init script startup so why not just use the
> safeguards built in to the system...
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start|stop|restart|status
> 
> or (I'm not sure which version of redhat that this became acceptable)
> 
> service httpd start|stop|restart|status
> 
> this will make sure that configuration files are read from disk when
> launched. Which if it was installed from rpm will certainly look to
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for it's configuration which is quite vast. If it
> was installed from tarballs, I would be normal to find the configuration
> file in /usr/local/apache/conf.
> 
> Craig
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