WHEN restart_count!=1 - setup happens only when it should, but you don't see any of the startup info. - if I print the startup info to STDERR instead of STDOUT, then you don't see anything on 'apachectl start', but you do on 'apachectl restart'
Thats possibly because STDERR isn't tied to anything yet. There's some black magic that seems to go on.
FWIW: restart=1 - apache turned on restart=2 - apache killed itself + reloads config files restart >2 - restart, etc