Description of problem: The gLSB 1.9 (currently WIP but accepted by spec review) contains these changes which the following patch fixes: - start_daemon, killproc and pidofproc have a -p pidfile argumen - killproc exit status code fixed (if the program is not running) Patch to come. highlighted gLSB init script changes (not 100% complete): http://www.linuxbase.org/%7Egk4/wip-sys-init.html Some exit error code fixed would be nice but are only "should" and not "shall" in the gLSB.
Created attachment 92983 [details] Patch for /etc/redhat-lsb/lsb_start_daemon and /etc/init.d/functions
Current LSB-2.0-pre version: http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/book/LSB-generic/LSB-generic/iniscrptfunc.html
Thanks for the patch; support was added in initscripts-8.22-1. The remaining part is a patch to redhat-lsb, in attachment 123705 [details].
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NEEDINFO_ENG has been deprecated in favor of NEEDINFO or ASSIGNED. Changing status to ASSIGNED for ENG review.
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