[wellylug] apache2ctl vs apache2 restart

[Daniel Pittman]

Sigurd Magnusson <sigurd at silverstripe.com> writes:

> Logrotate killed apache2 this morning on one of our servers. I see
> that it runs

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> For some reason this stopped apache2 but didn't restart it. (Any ideas
> on this?)

What do the error logs say?  What, if any, error output shows up in the
mail from cron?

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> Why do you think Debian has apache2 restart instead? 

As others have mentioned this is a wrapper around the lower level tools
you use.  Review the shell script in init.d if you are uncertain.

Regards,
        Daniel
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