Bug 244219 - Wrong init script
Summary: Wrong init script
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sendmail
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Thomas Woerner
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Blocks: 237789 244220 244221
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Reported: 2007-06-14 15:46 UTC by Michal Marciniszyn
Modified: 2014-02-10 23:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-06-14 15:54:03 UTC
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Description Michal Marciniszyn 2007-06-14 15:46:10 UTC
Description of problem:
The sendmail init script returns incorrect error codes and some of its parts
prevent the correct status command call. For example:
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ] || exit 0

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

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
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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.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-14 15:54:03 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.


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