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  1. Bug #552786
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 552786

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 552786] Re: initctl: lacks proper exit codes

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:48:25AM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 22:02 +0000, Mathias Gug wrote:
>
> > Scott, do you think this bug can be fixed in time for Lucid release?
> >
> Since we're well past all relevant freezes, and this is not exactly a
> show-stopping bug, I don't see how.
>

A broken use case is existing monitoring scripts (ex: bug 551544 - puppet
service provider). For an upstartified service '/etc/init.d/service status'
always returns zero. If the daemon dies the monitoring probe will not be able
to detect it and happily report that the daemon is running.

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