Bug 1071 – /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: Function 'status' sometimes thinks a process is running when it isn't, because it finds the 'grep' in the process table.

Bug 1071 - /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: Function 'status' sometimes thinks a process is running when it isn't, because it finds the 'grep' in the process table.

Summary:	/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: Function 'status' sometimes thinks a process is r...

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-02-08 08:43 EST by David Woodhouse
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-02-08 11:00:02 EST
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Description David Woodhouse 1999-02-08 08:43:34 EST

The 'status' function in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
sometimes finds its own 'grep' in the process table, and
reports that a process is running when it in fact isn't.

Changing line 130 from
pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | awk '{print $2}'`

 to

pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | grep -v grep | awk '{print
$2}'`

serves as a temporary workaround here, but isn't ideal.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-02-08 11:00:59 EST

this has been fixed in a more recent version of initscripts.

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