Bug#404182: exim4-base: init.d/exim4 start with daemon already running gives exit code 1

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Fri Jan 5 14:04:54 CET 2007


tags #404182 confirmed pending
thanks

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:48:29AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> $ sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 start
> Starting MTA:/usr/sbin/exim4 already running.
> $ echo $?
> 1
> 
> In my reading, this is a violation of LSB
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
> where exit code shuold be zero if service is running and ok.
> 
> Thanks to Heiko Schlittermann for pointing this out.

After verifying that Heiko is right (and adding --oknodo to
start-stop-daemon's command line in a number of places as Heiko
suggested), I have now committed this change to svn.

Greetings
Marc

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