Description of problem: The mcstrans init script fails to invoke the status command in several occasions, namely these commands prevent it in some cases: test `id -u` = 0 || exit 4 test -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled || exit 0 test -x /sbin/mcstransd || exit 5 the exit 4 if the user is not root might be correct(i.e. for user with not sufficient privilegues, the state is unknown), but the exit code 5 if the mcstransd is not executable definitely is not. I'm not sure about line containing exit 0. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: 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.
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Created attachment 172418 [details] proposed patch to fix issue This patch should solve the problem. Please apply to 5.1, spin a new package, and add to the errata. Thanks.
Exit 4 for nonroot is ok Exit zero mimics success, so that's ok Exit 5 is the correct return for "program not installed", which as far as we care is the same as when we can't execute it. The init script functions for this release don't support having non-root check status anyway, so we can't do that. So, there's really nothing to fix.
Here's where exit 5 is listed for 'program not installed" http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/iniscrptact.html