Bug 1039272

Summary: bmc-watchdog startup reports success even if the service does not get started
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Karel Volný <kvolny>
Component: freeipmiAssignee: Josef Ridky <jridky>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Rachel Sibley <rasibley>
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Description Karel Volný 2013-12-07 12:39:58 UTC
SSIA, trying to start bmc-watchdog on a machine that doesn't support that, it reports OK, despite the fact that on subsequent check, the status is dead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freeipmi-1.2.1-6.el6_5

Steps to Reproduce: 
choose an unsupported system - ppc, s390x
service bmc-watchdog start
service bmc-watchdog status

Actual results: 
Starting bmc-watchdog: [  OK  ]
bmc-watchdog dead but pid file exists

Expected results:
Starting bmc-watchdog: [FAILED]
bmc-watchdog is stopped