When you’re in a shell, and you want to do 1 or 2 commands in another brand new shell, but don’t feel like opening a new window, try using a subshell.

Here’s an example:

~ jhaddad$ pwd /Users/jhaddad ~ jhaddad$ ( cd /tmp/; touch bacon.txt ) ~ jhaddad$ pwd /Users/jhaddad ~ jhaddad$ ls [...]

Copy apachectl (or symlink it) to /etc/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines at the end of the comment section:

# chkconfig: 2345 64 36
# description: script for starting and stopping httpd

chkconfig –add httpd

These commands will now work:

service httpd start
service httpd stop

Additionally, apache will start when [...]