From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: When /etc/sysconfig/httpd is non-empty, apachectl sources it. However, when it checks the validity of the config files using httpd -t, it does not use the OPTIONS variable. See the script, lines 103 and following: case $ARGV in restart|graceful) if $HTTPD -t >&/dev/null; then $HTTPD $OPTIONS -k $ARGV ERROR=$? else echo "apachectl: Configuration syntax error, will not run \"$ARGV\":" testconfig fi I have a broken configuration in the default location, this results in the mystifying: apachectl: Configuration syntax error, will not run "graceful": Syntax OK Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.54-10.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have in /etc/sysconfig/httpd: OPTIONS="-f /localdisk/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" 2. Suppose that the configuration in /etc/httpd is broken 3. Try ``apachectl graceful'' Additional info: Obviously, line 105 of the script should be changed to: if $HTTPD $OPTIONS -t >&/dev/null; then <snip>
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Problem seems to have been corrected as of httpd-2.2.3-5