Dan Poirier wrote:
> minfrin@apache.org writes:
>
>> Author: minfrin
>> Date: Mon Nov 30 22:53:43 2009
>> New Revision: 885606
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=885606&view=rev
>> Log:
> ...
>> Remove the use of the apachectl script, as a script calling
>> another script makes no sense.
>
> I wonder if this is a good idea?
>
> apachectl does some things that httpd.init does not. For example, an
> admin might reasonably expect to be able to control Apache's environment
> by editing bin/envvars, but this will now silently fail when Apache is
> installed using RPM.
>
> Of course httpd.init could also source bin/envvars, but then we start
> down the road of having to keep httpd.init in sync with apachectl.
>
> I think we should just use the documented, recommended way of
> controlling apache. The extra cost seems minimal, especially compared
> to the long-term maintenance costs of not doing so.
Is it reasonable to simply provision apachectl as httpd.init, perhaps even
as a symlink?
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