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Bug 237814

Summary: Wrong init script
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Michal Marciniszyn <mmarcini>
Component: bootparamdAssignee: Ondrej Dvoracek <odvorace>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.0CC: tvujec
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Blocks: 237789, 237822, 237824    
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Description Michal Marciniszyn 2007-04-25 15:10:45 UTC
Description of problem:
Following code returns 0 when the script is run even when the service is not
started.
[ -f /etc/bootparams ] || exit 0

# Check that networking is up.
if [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ]
then
        exit 0
fi
It also forbids the correct invocation of the status parameter. Also the return
code for unknown request to the script is not 1 but 3...


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service network stop
2. service bootparamd status
3. echo $?
  
Actual results:
0

Expected results:
status of the service

Additional info:
When fixing this bug, please obbey our init script guidelines and be sure that
status command is run correctly.
Our guidelines are on following two pages:
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/InitscriptsSpec.html
http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/InitscriptGuidelines.html

For an example of the script that returns the error codes correctly and always
runs status see:
http://devserv.devel.redhat.com/~mmarcini/amd

This bug is tracked by 237789.

Comment 1 Ondrej Dvoracek 2007-05-17 07:46:20 UTC
Created attachment 154895 [details]
Porposed patch

Please, try this patch and let me know.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-05 20:29:47 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Since this
bugzilla is in a component that is not approved for the current
release, it has been closed with resolution deferred.  You may
reopen this bugzilla for consideration in the next release.