On 3/16/2010 2:24 PM, Noirin Shirley wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. > <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: >> On 3/16/2010 12:37 PM, Noirin Shirley wrote: >>> >>> In some places, we use httpd, but that leads to some horrible >>> confusion between the product and the command. >> >> I guess I'm not seeing the disconnect. If a reader cannot parse httpd >> as shorthand "the Apache HTTP Server program", then we have more serious >> issues in helping them become a web server administrator. > > The problem is that httpd is used as shorthand for "the Apache HTTP > Server" *and* as a reference to a specific binary/process/command, and > we assume that people can work out the difference, because, y'know, > Bill knows the difference, and Roy does, so obviously, all the rest of > us should too.
Actually; the command is usually apachectl ;-)
