The intent is to create (or find) a generic service management call that will start/stop/getStatus for any given service. For example:
startService(String serviceName), stopService(String serviceName)where serviceName maybe "Apache2", "JBoss", etc. The routines will programmatically start/stop the specified service, preferably via an API instead of exec'ing a shell script. That's why I was wondering if /sbin/service has a companion API. ________________________________ From: Jeff Dyke <jeff.d...@gmail.com> To: users@httpd.apache.org; Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Starting/Stopping Apache via an API On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am aware of the way to start/stop Apache via apachectl, both locally and > remotely via SSH. > > Is there some generic unix API, perhaps related to /sbin/service, that I can > remotely programmatically start Apache without exec'ing apachectl directly? > I'm thinking since Apache is already configured in /etc/init.d, is there a > unix API that my program can interface with, that say something like: > // start Apache via some API > service.start("Apache"); > Without my program actually exec'ing apachectl directly? All apachectl is doing is wrapping around httpd, so you want a wrapper for the wrapper? What is the ultimate intent. There are different interfaces into services (/etc/init.d) on different versions of linux, Ubuntu is different on newer versions then it was on old ones (service apache2 start vs /etc/init.d/apache2 start), though they both work. Since i always compile apache2, i've found it easiest to allow work with apachectl directly, that way the same commands work regards of unix/linux variant. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org