Bug#317786: nstx: init script doesn't report daemon start failure

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:34:54AM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Package: nstx
> Version:1.1-beta6-2.1
> 
> The init script for nstxcd (and maybe nstxd?) fail to report if a start
> action is unsuccessful. The one repeatable case I've discovered to
> test this is that if there is no network interface up (or default
> route) then it fails to start.

But they still reach the 'echo "$NAME."' line?  This behaviour is very common
in shell scripts that use 'set -e'.  If something fails they will abort
automaticaly, but you will notice because they don't reach the line where
name is printed.

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Robert Millan

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