Lacks a status action in the init script

[Jacob Smith]

Arpwatch is not LSB compliant since it lacks a status action in its' init script.

1) Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
    Release: 10.04

2) Installed: 2.1a15-1.1
    Candidate: 2.1a15-1.1
    Version table:
    *** 2.1a15-1.1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Expect output from "$/etc/init.d/arpwatch status" or "$service arpwatch status" such as "Arpwatch is running (pid XXXX)"

4) If you pass the "status" parameter to the init script you get the usage output.

[Jacob Smith (jsmith-argotecinc)]

Patch to implement status_of_proc() LSB init Function.

Everything works as defined in LSB standard with the exception of the return code of status when daemon is not running. It is reported incorrectly as 0 instead of 3. I believe this is because of a bug in /lib/lsb/init-functions in the pidofproc() section. I will post a bug there shortly.

[Jacob Smith (jsmith-argotecinc)]

Maybe someone else could take a look at the return code issue.

I looked through the init script for NTP and how it calls status_of_proc and mine is identical. However if ntp is not running and you execute /etc/init.d/ntp status; echo "return $?" you get return 3 which is the proper response per LSB standard. But if you execute the same with my patched script - /etc/init.d/arpwatch status; echo "return $?" you get return 0...
Not sure what I'm missing.

[Jacob Smith (jsmith-argotecinc)]

Have an updated patch that returns properly when Arpwatch isn't running. Will upload soon