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Description of problem:
On a multihomed system if DEV= is not set in /etc/sysconfig/netdump it defaults to eth0 in /etc/init.d/netdump. If eth0 is not up or is the incorrect interface to be arping the netdump server the netdump service will die ungracefully.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
netdump-0.7.4-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure eth0 is not active and another interface is
2. start netdump service: /etc/init.d/netdump start
3. watch errors get printed to terminal
  

Actual Results:  netdump failed to start which is expected because the DEV= paramter is incorrectly set but the error message is ambiguous and not clear because the service still tries to start even after it can not arping the netdump server.

Error is:
netdump: cannot arp <ip address>
bash: line 1: /var/crash/magic/: Is a directory
netdump: could not ssh to server <ip address>
netdump server ssh key exchange                            [FAILED]

Expected Results:  netdump service should fail at the point that it can not arping the netdump server   with a more descriptive error message.

Additional info:

print_address_info ()

arping -c 1 -I $DEV $host &> /dev/null
[ $? -ne 0 ] && echo "$prog: cannot arp $host" 1>&2

In this case the script needs to exit if $? -ne 0 and not continue to try and start the service causing the ambiguous error messages.

Looks like this was supposed to be addressed in Bugzilla 106546.