diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
index fa12ccf03..319082934 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import os
 import re
 import shutil
 import socket
-import subprocess
 import time
 
 import zope.interface
diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/constants.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/constants.py
index 813eae582..202fc3e21 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/constants.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/constants.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ CLI_DEFAULTS = dict(
     ctl="apache2ctl",
     enmod="a2enmod",
     dismod="a2dismod",
-    init_script="/etc/init.d/apache2",
     le_vhost_ext="-le-ssl.conf",
 )
 """CLI defaults."""
diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py
index 0b6170e1d..d232a1dc4 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py
@@ -563,24 +563,13 @@ class TwoVhost80Test(util.ApacheTest):
         mock_script.side_effect = errors.SubprocessError("Can't find program")
         self.assertRaises(errors.PluginError, self.config.get_version)
 
-    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.subprocess.Popen")
-    def test_restart(self, mock_popen):
-        """These will be changed soon enough with reload."""
-        mock_popen().returncode = 0
-        mock_popen().communicate.return_value = ("", "")
-
+    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.le_util.run_script")
+    def test_restart(self, _):
         self.config.restart()
 
-    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.subprocess.Popen")
-    def test_restart_bad_process(self, mock_popen):
-        mock_popen.side_effect = OSError
-
-        self.assertRaises(errors.MisconfigurationError, self.config.restart)
-
-    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.subprocess.Popen")
-    def test_restart_failure(self, mock_popen):
-        mock_popen().communicate.return_value = ("", "")
-        mock_popen().returncode = 1
+    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.le_util.run_script")
+    def test_restart_bad_process(self, mock_run_script):
+        mock_run_script.side_effect = [None, errors.SubprocessError]
 
         self.assertRaises(errors.MisconfigurationError, self.config.restart)
 
diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/util.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/util.py
index 1bc1fbe17..0c60373f2 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/util.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/util.py
@@ -75,11 +75,7 @@ def get_apache_configurator(
         in_progress_dir=os.path.join(backups, "IN_PROGRESS"),
         work_dir=work_dir)
 
-    with mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator."
-                    "subprocess.Popen") as mock_popen:
-        # This indicates config_test passes
-        mock_popen().communicate.return_value = ("Fine output", "No problems")
-        mock_popen().returncode = 0
+    with mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.le_util.run_script"):
         with mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.le_util."
                         "exe_exists") as mock_exe_exists:
             mock_exe_exists.return_value = True