Bug 151104

Description of problem:

Quoting:
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_2.0.1/LSB-Core/LSB-Core/iniscrptact.html

[quote]
In the case of init script commands other than "status" (i.e., "start", "stop",
"restart", "try-restart", "reload", and "force-reload"), the init script shall
return an exit status of zero if the action described by the argument has been
successful. Otherwise, the exit status shall be non-zero, as defined below. In
addition to straightforward success, the following situations are also to be
considered successful:

    * restarting a service (instead of reloading it) with the "force-reload"
argument
    * running "start" on a service already running
    * running "stop" on a service already stopped or not running
    * running "restart" on a service already stopped or not running
    * running "try-restart" on a service already stopped or not runnin
[/quote]

Example:

[root@red daemons]# service httpd status
httpd (pid 19925 19922 19919) is running...
[root@red daemons]# service httpd stop
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[root@red daemons]# service httpd stop
Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]

An example of a real-world problem this causes:

This prevents 'stop' from succeeding when not-running, which prevents
stop-before-start and stop-after-stop actions from succeeding in high
availability environments.