Why does Apache fail to restart after I update my RHN Satellite Server?

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Apache RPMs do not restart the httpd service upon installation. Therefore, after conducting a full update of a RHN Satellite Server (such as with the command up2date -uf), Apache fails. The error will look something like:

[Mon Feb 10 11:50:12 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
 Syntax error on line 214 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load
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