[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#496810: initscript nsca fails when invocked with start and already running

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: nsca
Version: 2.6-3.2
Severity: serious

  Hi,

  you should add in README.Debian that "dpkg-reconfigure nsca" is needed to
install startup links (I discovered it by looking at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/nsca.postinst..., not something usual users want to do).
README.Debian currently says :
"by default nsca works with an init script /etc/init.d/nsca"
But it does not say that, by default, symlinks are not installed.
  [This would be wishlist bug]

  However, trying to enable nsca, I found a bug:
atsina:/etc/init.d# dpkg-reconfigure nsca
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/nsca missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
Starting Nagios Service Check Acceptor: /usr/sbin/nsca already running.
ERROR: could not start nsca.
invoke-rc.d: initscript nsca, action "start" failed.
atsina:/etc/init.d#
  Missing LSB headers are already reported.
  But nsca also fails to return a 0 code when already running:
atsina:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/nsca start ; echo $?
Starting Nagios Service Check Acceptor: /usr/sbin/nsca already running.
ERROR: could not start nsca.
1
atsina:/etc/init.d# 

  According to policy 9.3.2 (and recents discussions on debian-devel), starting
an already running service or stopping an already stopped service must not
return an error code.

  Best regards,
    Vincent


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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