This patch works for me, but it is a little hacky.
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-lib.in b/utilities/ovs-lib.in
index 1684ddc..b0cdaf2 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-lib.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-lib.in
@@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ ovs_ctl () {
;;
*)
echo "`date -u`:$@" >> "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log"
- "${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" 2>&1 | tee -a
"${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log"
+ unique=`(uuidgen) 2>/dev/null` || unique=`date +"%Y %b %d %T"`
+ mkfifo "/tmp/${unique}"
+ tee -a "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" < "/tmp/${unique}" &
+ "${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" > "/tmp/${unique}" 2>&1
+ rc=$?
+ rm "/tmp/${unique}"
+ return $rc
;;
esac
}
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <shet...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Duffie Cooley <dcoo...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> From: Duffie Cooley <dcoo...@nicira.com>
>> This is a fix for a request to make sure that the openvswitch status command
>> in rhel based distros gives a useful exit status. That was fixed in
>>
>> commit 5e0c05bc058c78a11be6747f62e6ad88e5d06b70
>> debian: Fix exit status of openvswitch-switch init script "status" command
>>
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Duffie Cooley <dcoo...@nicira.com>
>> ---
>> rhel/etc_init.d_openvswitch | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/rhel/etc_init.d_openvswitch b/rhel/etc_init.d_openvswitch
>> index 7e64132..6a53cef 100755
>> --- a/rhel/etc_init.d_openvswitch
>> +++ b/rhel/etc_init.d_openvswitch
>> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>> # chkconfig: 2345 09 91
>> # description: Manage Open vSwitch kernel modules and user-space daemons
>>
>> -# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Nicira, Inc.
>> +# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 Nicira, Inc.
>> #
>> # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>> # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
>> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ case $1 in
>> ;;
>> status)
>> ovs_ctl status
>> + exit $?
>> ;;
>> version)
>> ovs_ctl version
>> --
>> 1.8.1.2
>>
> I don't think this helps. The exit status is always 0. I broke this
> with my implementation of 'ovs_ctl' in ovs-lib tee'ing the o/p to
> ovs-ctl.log. tee will return an exit status of success even though the
> previous command returned an exit status of 1.
>
> I can use the PIPESTATUS variable. But I don't think it is POSIX
> compliant. Any other ideas?
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