[Linux-HA] Question on lsb status scripts on SuSE

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 7/17/07, Andy Kipp <AKIPP at velcro.com> wrote:
> I saw another thread on lsb and status, so I thought I would ask a
> question that has been bothering me:
>
> In my cib, I have a resource configured like so:
>
> <primitive class="lsb" id="gwmta_7" provider="heartbeat" type="gwmta">
>   <operations>
>     <op id="gwmta_7_mon" interval="120s" name="monitor"
> timeout="60s"/>
>    </operations>
> </primitive>
>
> However when the service fails, I get this error in the syslog and it
> fails to restart the service.
>
> Jul 17 15:48:43 groupwise-2-mht lrmd: [4488]: debug: RA output
> [Checking for service GWMTA ..unused ] didn't match any pattern

thats a debug message, not an error :)

>
> Checking the return code for the lsb script status returns 3 (see
> below) which is the LSB compliant return code for a server that is not
> started.
>
> [root at groupwise-2-mht:~]# rcgwmta status
> Checking for service GWMTA
> unused
> [root at groupwise-2-mht:~]# echo $?
> 3
>
> Shouldn't heartbeat restart the service or is there a configuration
> error?

It should, yes.
Why it doesn't is hard to comment on in the absence of version
information, logs, etc.