Bug 170735 – initscript exit status does not conform to LSB

Bug 170735 - initscript exit status does not conform to LSB

Summary:	initscript exit status does not conform to LSB

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 151104

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2005-10-14 05:14 EDT by Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:56 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-07-14 12:33:03 EDT
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Description Trond Eivind Glomsrød 2005-10-14 05:14:03 EDT

According to the LSB, 'running "stop" on a service already stopped or not
running' is considered a successful action (and should thus return 0). When
running "service sendmail stop" (or invoking the init script directly) and
sendmail isn't running, it returns 1:

[root@delfi3-1 ~]# service sendmail stop
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [FAILED]
[root@delfi3-1 ~]# echo $?
1
[root@delfi3-1 ~]#

Comment 1 bugzilla macrotex 2006-05-11 01:09:12 EDT

This is important to us as the init scripts not being LSB-compliant breaks the
Heartbeat HA (high availability) scripts.

Comment 2 bugzilla macrotex 2006-05-11 01:11:53 EDT

I tracked this down to line 219 of /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions. The line
currently reads 

RC=1

It either should be changed to 

RC=0

or else a more careful check to see if the service is already stopped should be
undertaken before returning error (1).

Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2006-07-14 09:56:51 EDT

This is an initscripts problem, then.

The same stop mechanism is used in many init scripts.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2006-07-14 12:33:03 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151104 ***

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