From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 22:30:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B7E37C0F8 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:30:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA74539; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D86883.5573F2B0@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:30:27 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jon ." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting apache References: <20000322054452.58820.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jon ." wrote: > Running httpd directly does nothing but run and then exit the program., Err... no. Running httpd starts apache using the default httpd.conf file. apachectl is just a script that performs various administration functions in a convenient manner. All 'apachectl start' does is wrap the command '/usr/local/sbin/httpd' in some code that tests to see if it's running, then tests to see if it started successfully. Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message