You cannot check the status of apache immediately after starting it

[Bryan McLellan]

The init script exists with a returncode of 1 if you try to check status immediately after starting apache.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart ; sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 status ; echo $?
 * Restarting web server apache2 [Mon Feb 02 19:45:17 2009] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 188 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
 ... waiting [Mon Feb 02 19:45:18 2009] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf at line 188 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
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