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Re: Linux start script updates

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-03-01T13:13:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On tor, 2009-08-20 at 10:31 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> (2)  It doesn't exit with zero for a missing executable unless the
> request is "stop".  It uses 5, which means "program is not installed".

Using 5 is correct, but special-casing "stop" is kind of useless.  Every
other init script I have ever seen that attempts to handle this, doesn't
bother.