Bug#330276: 'apache2ctl restart' exits with 0 after 404
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Not sure how the exit code of "status" would ever be meaningful without
> also looking at the output, as lynx may have succeeded, but the status
> page could be telling you that your webserver's on fire. The whole
> point of "status" is the output, as far as I'm concerned.
Well, I'm writing a tool for automated server management
(http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet), and it needs some way to
automatically discern whether a service is currently running. Normally
the init script's status command would be sufficient, but since that is
lacking, well, I was hoping I could use apache2ctl.
So, is there a "right" way to automatically figure out whether Apache2
is running on Debian?
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