Re: Linux start script updates

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> > Exactly. With Fedora respecting the standard in this regard, I'm
> > convinced we should, too. In reviewing things based on Peter's
> > question, I did start to have doubts about *not* special-casing
> > "status" -- it has its own set of values and 5 is not assigned, so
> > using it seems wrong. It seems like it should be 3 ("program is not
> > running"). Agreed?
>
> Probably. I think that in practice most scripts are not very tense
> about this --- as long as the exit code is 0 or not-0 per spec, which
> not-0 value is reported is not so exciting to most people.

So, do the startup scripts as they exist in CVS need any adjustment?

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