Graham Leggett wrote: > > 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.
Ok, so they want to roll their own. Sounds like a maintainer issue. What does this say for using our httpd rpm for an Ubuntu or other distribution of linux? > 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. IMHO, if it is fundamentally incompatible with apachectl and non-redhat distributions, let the the packagers tweak and take the zany customizations out from under our problem set.