[BIGTOP-524] Add tests to verify that our init scripts conform to the LSB specification

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0, 0.4.0
• Component/s: tests
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bruno Mahé
• Created: 11/Apr/12 23:28
• Updated: 26/Mar/13 18:24

Description

I recently submitted BIGTOP-505 and BIGTOP-506, but we should proactively verify all our init scripts follow the LSB specification.
This would avoid some issues where for instance third party tools get confused by the return code of some action.

So we should add tests to ensure that init scripts follow http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html

Here are some cased to be checked (extract from the spec linked above):

For all other init-script actions, the init script shall return an exit status of zero if the action was successful. Otherwise, the exit status shall be non-zero, as defined below. In addition to straightforward success, the following situations are also to be considered successful:

    restarting a service (instead of reloading it) with the force-reload argument

    running start on a service already running

    running stop on a service already stopped or not running

    running restart on a service already stopped or not running

    running try-restart on a service already stopped or not running