Re: Bug#291148: [PROPOSAL] Add a 'status' option in init.d scripts
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:34:24PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> >
> > "/etc/init.d/foo start" should exit with a nonzero status if foo failed
> > to start. Unfortunately this status isn't conveyed to the user, as you
> > say.
>
> That is not exactly true: See 9.4. Console messages from `init.d' scripts
>
> In particular the message end by a dot followed by a newline if and only
> if the script is successful.
>
> If you see something like ...
>
> $ /etc/init.d/foo start
> Starting foo daemon: foo $
>
> ... the script failed.
>
> On the other hand, if you get
>
> $ /etc/init.d/foo start
> Starting foo daemon: foo.
> $
>
> ... then the script run correctly.
While true, I hardly consider this to be intuitive to the average user
that the script failed to start the requested process. Compared to say
a " - Failed" message.
--
Jamin W. Collins
It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
smoking. -- Andrew Suffield
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