On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:11:38PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote: [...] > + In the case of init script commands other than <tt>status</tt> (i.e., > + <tt>start</tt>, <tt>stop</tt>, <tt>restart</tt>, <tt>reload</tt>, and > + <tt>force-reload</tt>), the init script should return an exit status > + of zero if the action described by the argument has been successful. > + Otherwise, the init script should print an error message and return > + one of the following non-zero exit status codes. > + <taglist> > + <tag>1</tag> > + <item>generic or unspecified error,</item> > + <tag>2</tag> > + <item>invalid or excess argument(s),</item> > + <tag>3</tag> > + <item>unimplemented feature (for example, <tt>reload</tt>),</item> > + <tag>4</tag> > + <item>user had insufficient privilege,</item> > + <tag>5</tag> > + <item>program is not installed,</item>
Objection. There's no need for our packages to show the same behavior as LSB packages for Debian to be LSB-compatible. Specifically, there's no need to force our initscripts to exit with non-zero exit code, since that would break a quite a few things. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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