httpd and dovecot service start fails

[Steve Rieger]

On Feb 4, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new
> machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same
> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem.  
> This is
> getting real close to working correctly!
>
> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot  
> restart, the
> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly  
> during
> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they  
> both
> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or
> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd  
> logs and
> the messages log and found nothing.
>
> THANKS!
>
> Harold

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think about it, whats the difference betwix apachectl start and  
service httpd start