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Bug 173991

Summary: initscripts not LSB-compliant, breaking cluster suite
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Nick Strugnell <nstrug>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Nick Strugnell 2005-11-23 14:40:56 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The initscripts shipped with RHEL4 do not have LSB-compliant behaviour, and therefore break cluster suite.

Clustersuite expects the following behaviour:-

1. If the 'start' method is called when the service is already running, the init script should return success.

2. If the 'stop' method is called when the service is not running, the init scripts should return success.

This is the defined behaviour according to LSB 1.3 (http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/iniscrptact.html)

Example init scripts that do not follow this behaviour:

httpd, smb do not observe behaviour 2.
nsdcd does not observe behaviour 1.

Some scripts (e.g. pam) do seem to be compliant.

This bug is particularly bad as the walkthrough documentation for RHCS at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-cs-en/ch-httpd-service.html uses httpd as an example - this will not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.93.20.EL-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service httpd start
2. service httpd stop 
3. service httpd stop
4. echo $?
  

Actual Results:  1

Expected Results:  0

Additional info:

I'm putting this to a severity of high as it seriously compromises the availability of HA clusters.
Comment 1 Nick Strugnell 2005-11-23 14:42:28 UTC 
Blah, where I say 'some scripts (e.g. pam) seem to be compliant' I meant gpm
Comment 2 Nick Strugnell 2005-11-23 16:56:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151104 ***
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-11-23 17:35:37 UTC 
Note that scripts shipped with the OS are not required to be LSB compliant.
Comment 4 Nick Strugnell 2005-11-23 17:56:53 UTC 
While scripts shipped with the OS are not required to be LSB compliant, our
clients might reasonably expect them to actually work with Red Hat Cluster suite.