[gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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Stable x86 just got a new apache server, and it's puzzling me.

For one thing, /etc/conf.d/apache2 now ends with this

# Environment variables to keep
# All environment variables are cleared from apache
# Use this to preserve some of them
# NOTE!!! It's very important that this contains PATH
# TODO: Phase this out in favor of /etc/conf.d/env_whitelist
#KEEPENV="PATH"

It has said all along that it's important to have PATH, but now it's
commented out without any replacement in env_whitelist.
Moreover, there's no example in env_whitelist to show the syntax.  I just
put PATH in there on  a line of its own, and hoped for the best.

The bigger puzzle is this one:  I can't stop apache because it can't be
found, but I also can't start it because it's already running.  It is in
fact running and serving web pages.  But I'd like the init stuff to be a lot
more consistent.

The confusion about cupsd and vmware is a separate issue I've been meaning
to ask about for months; I don't think it has anything to do with apache2.

treat ~ # cd /etc/init.d
treat init.d # ./apache2 stop
 * Stopping apache2 ...
No /usr/sbin/apache2 found running; none
killed.
[ !! ]
treat init.d # ./apache2 start
 * WARNING:  apache2 has already been started.
treat init.d # ./apache2 status
 * Caching service dependencies ...
 *  Service 'cupsd' should be AFTER service 'vmware', but one of
 *  the services 'vmware' depends on, depends on
'cupsd'!
[ ok ]
 * status:  started
treat init.d #
-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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