On Jul 18, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Russell Jackson wrote:
> 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?
What does that regex do? I'm not familiar enough with grep, I guess.
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