Bug 235999

Summary:	Wrong init script
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Michal Marciniszyn <mmarcini>
Component:	anacron	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	tvujec
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	236018, 236019, 237789

Description Michal Marciniszyn 2007-04-11 13:02:13 UTC

Description of problem:
initscript of anacron ends if /usr/sbin/anacron does not exist with exit code 0.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mv /usr/sbin/anacron /usr/sbin/anacron.gotcha
2. service anacron start
3. echo $?
  
Actual results:
0

Expected results:
non-zero error code

Additional info:
There are several more bugs in init script, namely the status command should
always run irrespectible of lack of binary/conf file... For our initscript
guidelines watch
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/InitscriptsSpec.html
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/InitscriptGuidelines.html

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2007-09-25 09:17:03 UTC

This problem is resolved in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red
Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems.