Russell Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've had a number of instances where simply doing a grep
> '${service-name}' winds up giving a false positive. Example:
>
> $ ps auxww | grep -v grep | grep acpid
> root        15  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Jul11   0:00 [kacpid]
>
> acpid isn't running, but the kacpid kernel thread makes puppet think it is; 
> so, it keeps
> running service acpid stop on every run. Of course, to top it off, the 
> centos4 init script
> always returns a zero exit status value.
>
> Suggested fix: use the pattern '\<${service-name}\>' instead.
>
> Can anyone think of a case where this wouldn't work as intended?

Yes: service {"ntp:"}, which runs ntpd; try: '\<${service_name}d?\>'

(Also, on Debian, service {"puppet":} which runs puppetd.)

Regards,
        Daniel

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