On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:23:17PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 02:32:10PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > >> commit 46528f78e5c(debian, rhel, xenserver: Ability to collect ovs-ctl > >> logs) > >> made changes in the startup scripts such that the o/p of ovs-ctl is logged > >> into ovs-ctl.log. But it had an unintended consequence that the exit status > >> of ovs-ctl was no longer returned. We would always return success(the exit > >> status of tee). > >> > >> With this commit, we return the exit status of ovs-ctl instead of tee. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> > > > > We log most of the ovs-ctl commands because they change state. > > "status" doesn't change the state of anything. Do we need to log it > > at all? > The only reason to log it is to debug bug statements that _may_ say that > 'status' command returned "not running" and then it became fine. Logging it > may provide a clue to whether there was a upgrade running at the same time > or not.
Ah. That could be useful. Fine, let's keep the logging. > I can get rid of logging for 'status', if you feel the above > information is not worth it. > > > > > The new version doesn't appear to print the status on stdout anymore. > I re-tested it and it does print it for me. Is your startup script unchanged? I didn't test it, I just read it, and I forgot that "tee -a" would print the same text on stdout as it did to the file. > > One inline comment: > > > >> + "status") > >> + # In case of the command 'status', we should return the exit > >> status > >> + # of ovs-ctl. It is also useful to document the o/p in > >> ovs-ctl.log. > >> + display=`"${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" 2>&1` > >> + rc=$? > >> + echo "${display}" | tee -a "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" > > > > Is this different from > > echo "${display}" >> "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" > The former should print both to stdout and the log. The latter only to the > log. > But based on your earlier comment, it sounds like your environment is > different than mine. No, I just made a mistake. Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev