Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 115910
apachectl doesn't respect $OPTIONS from /etc/sysconfig/httpd
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: apachectl doesn't appear to respect any extra $OPTIONS that may be set for Apache in /etc/sysconfig/httpd. Both /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd and /usr/sbin/apachectl source /etc/sysconfig/httpd when executed, but init.d/httpd clearly uses $OPTIONS and /usr/sbin/apachectl mentions $HTTPD. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.46-26.ent How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create /etc/sysconfig/httpd with the text OPTIONS="-DFOO" 2. Start Apache using service httpd start 3. Note that Apache is started with -DFOO 4. Stop Apache and restart with apachectl. 5. Note that Apache is not started with -DFOO Additional info: To fix, esentially just add $OPTIONS after most instances of $HTTPD in apachectl. The diff against httpd-2.0.40-apctl.patch is really ugly.
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