Re: Starting/Stopping Apache via an API

[Tech Newbie <technb@xxxxxxxxx>]

The intent is to create (or find) a generic service management call that will start/stop/getStatus for any given service.

For example:

startService(String serviceName), stopService(String serviceName) where serviceName maybe "Apache2", "JBoss", etc.

The routines will programmatically start/stop the specified service, preferably via an API instead of exec'ing a shell script.

That's why I was wondering if  /sbin/service has a companion API.

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From: Jeff Dyke <jeff.dyke@xxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tech Newbie <technb@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Starting/Stopping Apache via an API

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Tech Newbie <technb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am aware of the way to start/stop Apache via apachectl, both locally and
> remotely via SSH.
>
> Is there some generic unix API, perhaps related to /sbin/service, that I can
> remotely programmatically start Apache without exec'ing apachectl directly?
> I'm thinking since Apache is already configured in /etc/init.d, is there a
> unix API that my program can interface with, that say something like:
>   // start Apache via some API
>   service.start("Apache");
> Without my program actually exec'ing apachectl directly?

All apachectl is doing is wrapping around httpd, so you want a wrapper
for the wrapper?  What is the ultimate intent.  There are different
interfaces into services (/etc/init.d) on different versions of linux,
Ubuntu is different on newer versions then it was on old ones (service
apache2 start vs /etc/init.d/apache2 start), though they both work.

Since i always compile apache2, i've found it easiest to allow work
with apachectl directly, that way the same commands work regards of
unix/linux variant.
>
>

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