How do you change what the /usr/sbin/service program runs?
 

I have a RedHat 9 server, it's to be used for web stuff only - so I don't have X installed on it. I have successfully compiled and installed the latest versions of Apache and PHP - but the /usr/sbin/service command which I was using to start/stop the httpd service is pointing to the old version of Apache.

What script do I need to change to make it point to the correct (new) version of Apache?

Thanks.

Rich

Version 2+ of apache is called httpd on some distros. The old version is called apache.
service httpd start

Thanks for the reply, but that wasn't really what I needed help with :)

I know how to use the service command, I use it all the time - what I wasn't sure of was how to make it work with a different installation of Apache. I use PHP so I use Apache 1.3, not 2 as it isn't as stable. I found out how to do it in the end - I just needed to modify the scripts in the rc.d directory and comment out a function that checked to see if the httpd.conf was a 1.3 version or not (which of course it would be!). Just pointed the paths to my new apachectl and all is well now.

Cheers,

Rich

If you have both apache 1.3 and 2.X installed, you would have both apache and httpd showing in /etc/rc/d/init.d

You could uninstall the one you do not want or mark the script not executable.