You can still run apache's configtest https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-Web_Servers.html httpd Service Control With the migration away from SysV init scripts, server administrators should switch to using the apachectl and systemctl commands to control the service, in place of the service command. The following examples are specific to the httpd service. The command: service httpd graceful is replaced by apachectl graceful The command: service httpd configtest is replaced by apachectl configtest The systemd unit file for httpd has different behavior from the init script as follows: A graceful restart is used by default when the service is reloaded. A graceful stop is used by default when the service is stopped. Thanks, Richard -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Billings Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ? On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:57:10AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 07/15/2014 11:33 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> This one does bother me. I may not want to restart a production > >> instance of apache, when all I want it to do is reload the > >> configuration files, so that one site changes while the others are all > >> running happily as clams. > > > > systemctl reload $unit > > > > Documented in the systemctl(1) man page. > <snip> > Which contradicts the long post from the guy I was responding to, who said > it *only* did start, stop, restart.... What I meant is that it doesn't support extra action verbs, such as 'service httpd configtest'. I didn't mean to indicate that it ONLY supported start, stop, restart and status. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos