Bug 1095

Summary: Minor bug in function 'status' at /etc/rc.d/init.d/funtions
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: ralcan
Component: initscriptsAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 5.2CC: ralcan
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Description ralcan 1999-02-10 11:06:58 UTC
When some of the programs at /etc/rc.d/init.d/ are called
with the 'status' parameter, sometimes they report an output
like this:
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status
sendmail (pid 1378
2011
2012) is running...
This is due to a bug in the 'status' function. The next
patch I submit removes this minor bug. BTW I hope you
release a new version of Red Hat Linux soon (I too use
2.2.1).
130c130
<                 pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | awk
'{print $2}'`
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>                 pid=`ps auxww | grep '[ ]'$1 | awk '{print
$2}'`
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<                         echo "$1 (pid $pid) is running..."
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>                         echo -n "$1 (pid "
>                       echo -n $pid
>                       echo    ") is running..."

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-02-10 15:20:59 UTC
this is fixed in a later initscripts package.