Swift-init doesn't indicate permissions issues

[Coleman Corrigan]

Its an annoyance when running swift-init status all indicates that no services are running, when in actual fact you just haven't sudoed / su -ed to the swift account.

I'd like to propose Philipp Moelders' fix to the issue as follows:

diff --git a/swift/common/manager.py b/swift/common/manager.py
index 902d188..e5b4c4f 100644
--- a/swift/common/manager.py
+++ b/swift/common/manager.py
@@ -432,6 +432,8 @@ class Server():
                     if kwargs.get('verbose'):
                         print _("Removing stale pid file %s") % pid_file
                     remove_file(pid_file)
+ elif e.errno == errno.EPERM:
+ print "No permission to signal this process!
             else:
                 # process exists
                 pids[pid] = pid_file

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/13990

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/13990
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/57ebd1791088418634cd2cb84d3f475887af25ba
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 57ebd1791088418634cd2cb84d3f475887af25ba
Author: Darrell Bishop <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 3 08:28:36 2012 -0700

    Warn when killing fails with EPERM

    Have swift-init warn when the running user doesn't have permissions to
    signal processes. Fixes bug 1017494.

    Change-Id: Icb9048ab36f1ca73bb93b11c9c2aed882d99dfa7