Init Script does not contain a status function

[Geoff Scott]

I didn't realize this until I started using puppet to manage the open-vm-tools package. Puppet was attempting to run the status function in the init script for the application and the puppet run was failing due to the script returning a 1. The Red Hat init script for the same package has a status, but I'm guessing since the actual process is called "vmtoolsd" and the name of the script/binary is different it requires a somewhat odd status function.

I've written a working status function for this package's init script and asked in #ubuntu irc channel how to submit it and was told to submit a bug report in launchpad.

This is on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS with open-vm-tools package 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2

[Geoff Scott (picardrulez)]

I think I created a patch? I've never used bzr before but I used it to pull the package, made the change, and then did a bzr diff. I'm attaching the resulting file.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "initStatusFunc.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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