[Linux-HA] exit code for status when program is stopped, 7 or 3

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Pavlos Parissis
<pavlos.parissis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am checking if my script which starts a program is LSB compliant.
> So, I followed the steps mentioned here [1] and in one of the steps
> says
>
> Status (stopped):
> /etc/init.d/some_service status ; echo "result: $?"
>
> Did the script accept the command?
> Did the script indicate the service was not running?
> Did the command print result: 3 (in addition to the regular output)?
>
> So, if the program is stopped the status should return 3, is that exit
> code equivalent with the OCF_NOT_RUNNING return code?
> Where is set to 7
> [root at node-01 ~]# grep OCF_NOT_RUNNING
> /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/.ocf-returncodes
> OCF_NOT_RUNNING=7
>
> Reading the code of /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/Dummy I conclude
> that my script should return 7 and not 3.
> Am I right?

No.
LSB scripts should return 3, only OCF scripts should return 7.

> [1]
> http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.0/html/Pacemaker_Explained/ap-lsb.html
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