Bug 237794

Summary:	Wrong init script
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Michal Marciniszyn <mmarcini>
Component:	autofs	Assignee:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.0	CC:	ikent, tvujec
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Bug Blocks:	237789, 237796, 237797

Description Michal Marciniszyn 2007-04-25 14:25:52 UTC

Description of problem:
Following construction forbids to invoke status command on initscript and also
ends up with error code 0 even when the service is not started:
test -e $DAEMON || exit 0
There are also problems with incorrect error codes not obeying our guidelines.

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

How reproducible:
always

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

Expected results:
1/status of the service

Additional info:
When fixing this bug, please obbey our init script guidelines and be sure that
status command is run correctly.
Our guidelines are on following two pages:
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/InitscriptsSpec.html
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/InitscriptGuidelines.html

For an example of the script that returns the error codes correctly and always
runs status see:
http://devserv.devel.redhat.com/~mmarcini/amd

This bug is tracked by 237789.

Comment 1 Jeff Moyer 2007-05-31 18:48:48 UTC

Yes, if you REMOVE the automount binary, the init script won't work.  Of course,
neither will the automount daemon.  I fail to recognize this as a bug requiring
fixing in an update release of our operating system.  Report the problem upstream.