[Linux-cluster] killproc annoyance

[Lon Hohberger]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:41:03PM -0600, Tarun Reddy wrote:
> Here is where things get annoying.
> 4) Now clustering says the service is failed. So it attempts to  
> "service httpd stop" which killproc in /etc/init.d/functions returns  
> a 1 since it wasn't running before. This causes the clustering  
> software to fail the stop, and hence leave the service in a failed  
> state. I can't get httpd up without the virtual IPs that are  
> associated to the service, so I can't get killproc to ever return a 0  
> when stopping the service. Shouldn't killproc return a 0 if none of  
> the httpd daemons are still running?

This is a bug in the rhel4 initscripts package.

There's a question in the FAQ about it:

http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/faq.html#rgm_wontrestart

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Lon Hohberger - Software Engineer - Red Hat, Inc.