httpd fails after boot

[Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:59:44 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:

[...]
> 
> If you look at /etc/init.d/httpd, you will see:
> 
> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/httpd ]; then
>         . /etc/sysconfig/httpd
> fi
> 
> So the initialisation script sources that file. If you want to set
> Environment variables that are available when Apache starts, it would
> make sense to try adding those variables to /etc/sysconfig/httpd - it
> might do what you want for minimal effort...
> 
> --
> Sam

If that would work, then I could just as well export
the variable from /etc/init.d/httpd .  I just tried
that and the web server started, but the variable
was not available in the bash shell, so I am still
stuck with setting it in two places.

Mike.