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Old 11-07-2010
service exit status
what are the number for the exit status for command service and what does every number mean.
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Old 11-07-2010
From the man page for service(8):

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EXIT CODES
       service calls the init script and returns the status returned by it.

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Since exit(0) is the default meaning OK, zero is good is true, like 'true', for instance, returns zero. Anything else is a warning at least. Depending on the setup, they range 0-255 or -128 - +127, so you can encode information about the return in there. After that, read man pages.
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