Bug 70730

Summary: xinetd initscript has wrong error handling
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Peter van Egdom <p.van.egdom>
Component: xinetdAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Peter van Egdom 2002-08-04 15:20:00 UTC 
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Description of problem:
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./xinetd start
Starting xinetd:                                           [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/xinetd': Permission denied


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "xinetd start" as a normal user
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Actual Results:
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./xinetd start
Starting xinetd:                                           [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/xinetd': Permission denied


Expected Results:
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./xinetd start
Starting xinetd:                                           [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/xinetd': Permission denied


Additional info:

Source RPM: xinetd-2.3.5-5.src.rpm
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-08-05 16:41:20 UTC 
Fixed in xinetd-2.3.5-6