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Bug 197309

Summary: Gentoo's emulation of start-stop-daemon does not handle --retry schedule
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Seth Robertson <in-gentoo>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Seth Robertson 2007-10-28 16:47:30 UTC
Gentoo emulates start-stop-daemon in /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh

This emulation lacks several features present and documented in /sbin/start-stop-daemon.  --retry in schedule mode is the most important of these missing features (that I am aware of) but others like --verbose exist.  Attempts to use this documented feature in a init.d script are silently translated to some completely different usage (--retry 5)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat > /etc/init.d/example <<EOF
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

VMPID=/var/run/$SVCNAME.pid

start() {
        ebegin "Starting ${SVCNAME}"

        start-stop-daemon --start -m -b --pidfile "${VMPID}" --exec /bin/sleep \
                -- 300
        eend $? "Check your logs to see why startup failed"
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping ${SVCNAME}"
        start-stop-daemon --stop -s 0 -R 1/-0/2/-KILL/15 --pidfile "${VMPID}"
        eend $?
}
EOF
2. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/example
3. /etc/init.d/example start
4. /etc/init.d/example stop


Actual Results:  
 * Stopping example ...                                                   [ !! ]


Expected Results:  
 * Stopping example ...
/sbin/start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 7913: No such process    [ ok ]


Passing the '-o' argument to start-stop-daemon causes the emulator to switch to the actual start-stop-daemon program which works as documented.
Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-29 15:29:15 UTC
It's fixed in baselayout-2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155087 ***