From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: While crafting init scripts for gpsd-2, I found that initlog consistently returns a spurious nonzero status when starting up gpsd. The result is that the daemon function displays a FAILED indication even though daemon startup was successful. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.55.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download and build gpsd from http://gpsd.berlios.de/ 2. Run "initlog -q -c 'qpsd'; echo $?" as root. 3. Observe that the return status is nonzero. 4. Verify with ps ax that gpsd is running Actual Results: The daemon function spuriously indicated failure. Expected Results: A big green SUCCEEDED. Additional info: I am almost certain this symptom is related to bug #67232. gpsd forks itself after it starts up. I compiled initscripts from current CVS HEAD, went in with gdb, and verified that the problem does indeed appear to be in the waitpid() call in monitor(). Fix the damn SIGCHLD problem already. Alan Cox diagnosed this one two years ago.
Can't reproduce this on a current release. Note that initlog is deprecated and will be removed from future releases.