diff --git a/opt/hc/lib/platform/linux/check_linux_httpd_status.sh b/opt/hc/lib/platform/linux/check_linux_httpd_status.sh
index 09b3936..3df0652 100755
--- a/opt/hc/lib/platform/linux/check_linux_httpd_status.sh
+++ b/opt/hc/lib/platform/linux/check_linux_httpd_status.sh
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ case "${_HTTPD_BIN}" in
         ;;
     *)
         typeset _HTTPD_INIT_SCRIPT="/etc/init.d/httpd"
-        typeset _HTTPD_SYSTEMD_SERVICE="apache.httpd"
+        typeset _HTTPD_SYSTEMD_SERVICE="httpd.service"
         ;;
 esac
 log "setting httpd init script to {${_HTTPD_INIT_SCRIPT}}"