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Re: init.d return values



On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 01:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
albert usqualius <ausqualius@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's a policy update on my wishlist: 
> 
> I'd like all init.d scripts to return a useful value.
> I wrote an rc script that reports whether each script
> passed or failed (OK/Fail ala RedHat), only to
> discover that very few of the init.d scripts returned
> valid values at all. 
> 
> When I reboot my machine, (as I often to due to
> frequent hardware changes), I want to know immediately
> whether something went wrong in the boot process. 

Such things will hide the real return values of whatever commands
you're running, so it will be more difficult to actually find out why
the daemon/utility/whatever in question isn't working.

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