how to know if start, restart is successful?

[Maria Guarch <mariagrc@gmail.com>]

Hello !!
I'd need to know if
/etc/init.d/* start/restart or stop
is successful or not..

I've done that
if /etc/init.d/apache2 start;then
echo yes
else
echo no
fi

But it returns yes even it can not be started...is there any way to
know if restarting daemons is successful?

thanks very much.

Maria