On 15 May 2002, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What about
> >
> > - Incorporate the restart stuff into httpd
> > - Make apachectl a simple shell script that just sets up the environment
> > and calls httpd
> > - Encourage everyone to use apachectl
>
> Would the syntax for start/restart/configtest be exactly the same as
> current apachectl, or would it be changed? (I think it would be
> changed to use "-k keyword" for apachectl options that don't
> correspond directly to existing httpd options.)
>
It would be very nice if "httpd graceful" could be made a synonym
for "httpd -k graceful", but I don't think the current getopt
stuff will handle that. Otherwise, I would favor an apachectl
that looks something like
#!/bin/sh
# pick up any necessary environment variables
if test -f @exp_bindir@/envvars; then
. @exp_bindir@/envvars
fi
case $@ in
start)
shift 1
;;
stop)
COMMAND=-k stop
shift 1
;;
graceful)
COMMAND=-k graceful
shift 1
;;
# etc...
httpd $COMMAND $@
(Please excuse the horrible shell script, but you get the point.)
Possibly with a "this is deprecated please use -k" message
in the appropriate places.
This is not perfectly compatible with apachectl, but it is pretty
close, and very much simpler.
Joshua.
