apachectl command not found

[sodani]

I'm trying to restart apache on a linux system, but when I use 'apachectl graceful' it tells me that the command was not found. I'm SUing to root...

Any ideas?

[Martin Strand]

You're probably just using "su", use "su -" instead to get a shell or else your PATH won't be set up properly.

[phranque]

you can always try "whereis apachectl" and use the complete path for the command.

[sodani]

Okay, I tried "su -" but got the message: warning: maxclients of 25 exceeds serverlimit value of 10 servers, lowering maxclients to 10. to increase, please see the serverlimit directive.

What does that mean?

When I did "whereis apachectl", I got something kind of confusing -
apachectl: /usr/sbin/apachectl /usr/share/man/man8/apachectl.8.gz
and I couldn't run the command from either folder.

[encyclo]

Which versions of linux and Apache? Try:

apache[b]2[/b]ctl

[sodani]

apache2ctl cannot be found either. I'm running apache 2.0, but not sure what version of Linux I have.

[phranque]

When I did "whereis apachectl", I got something kind of confusing -
apachectl: /usr/sbin/apachectl /usr/share/man/man8/apachectl.8.gz
and I couldn't run the command from either folder.

if you type "/usr/sbin/apachectl" what happens?

[sodani]

When I type /usr/sbin/apachectl I get this:
Usage: /usr/sbin/httpd [-D name] [-d directory] [-f file]
and it shows me options for usage.

/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful gives:
WARNING: MaxClients of 25 exceeds ServerLimit value of 10 servers, lowering MaxClients to 10. To increase, please see the ServerLimit directive.

[phranque]

what are the settings for MaxClients and ServerLimit in your apache config file?

[sodani]

MaxClients is set to 25 and ServerLimit is set to 10