Bug 50082

Summary:	apachectl status returns incorrect exit code
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Brett Okken <brett.okken.os>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	MassUpdate
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.2.11
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Brett Okken 2010-10-12 16:34:20 UTC

apachectl status returns 0 regardless if httpd is running or not.

A message indicating failure is written to console when httpd is down:
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host
lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhots/server-status

Comment 1 Eric Covener 2010-10-12 17:58:58 UTC

I wouldn't want apachectl to try to guess why lynx returned a bad status, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't pass the return code along.  

Giving this bug 24h to stew in case there is some objection (all the branches that actually call httpd do this)

Comment 2 Brett Okken 2010-10-13 21:47:43 UTC

Looks like fullstatus has the same problem as well.

Comment 3 Brett Okken 2010-12-13 17:43:57 UTC

What is the status of this? Were there any objections after stewing?

Comment 4 Eric Covener 2010-12-13 18:00:05 UTC

the pipe for awk in the "status" cmd makes us drop the return code anyway, so not as straightforward to fix in a portable way

Comment 5 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:08:58 UTC

Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

As repeatedly announced, the Apache HTTP Server Project has discontinued all development and patch review of the 2.2.x series of releases. The final release 2.2.34 was published in July 2017, and no further evaluation of bug reports or security risks will be considered or published for 2.2.x releases. All reports older than 2.4.x have been updated to status RESOLVED/LATER; no further action is expected unless the report still applies to a current version of httpd.

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