I have a Splunk forwarder instance that appears to be returning a value of 2 during start up.
I am curious as to what the possible return values are for the init script and what they mean.
I assume you mean the script which ends up as /etc/init.d/splunk or similar?
This thing invokes the launcher (bin/splunk) and passes its return values along.
The values don't appear to be that useful right now.
The new 4.1 command line work incorporates this table:
#define EXIT_NO_ARGS 8 #define EXIT_CMD_IGNORE 9 #define EXIT_FAILURE_USAGE 10 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DEPRECATED_CMD 11 #define EXIT_FAILURE_PARSE_CMD_LINE 12 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_HELP_EXISTS 14 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_DISPLAY_FUNC 15 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_CMD_EXISTS 16 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED 18 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_OBJ_EXISTS 19 #define EXIT_FAILURE_FGETS_READ 20 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REQD_ARG_MISSING 21 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REST_CALL 22 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DISPLAY_FUNC_ERR 23 #define EXIT_FAILURE_LOGIN 24 #define EXIT_FAILURE_URI_FORMAT 25
However we incorporate third party libraries. For example in some circumstances openssl (how the splunk executable communicates with splunkd) will exit(2) on its own. Compiling a complete list right now is not likely to be useful.
Instead I would suggest:
I assume you mean the script which ends up as /etc/init.d/splunk or similar?
This thing invokes the launcher (bin/splunk) and passes its return values along.
The values don't appear to be that useful right now.
The new 4.1 command line work incorporates this table:
#define EXIT_NO_ARGS 8 #define EXIT_CMD_IGNORE 9 #define EXIT_FAILURE_USAGE 10 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DEPRECATED_CMD 11 #define EXIT_FAILURE_PARSE_CMD_LINE 12 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_HELP_EXISTS 14 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_DISPLAY_FUNC 15 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_CMD_EXISTS 16 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED 18 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_OBJ_EXISTS 19 #define EXIT_FAILURE_FGETS_READ 20 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REQD_ARG_MISSING 21 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REST_CALL 22 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DISPLAY_FUNC_ERR 23 #define EXIT_FAILURE_LOGIN 24 #define EXIT_FAILURE_URI_FORMAT 25
However we incorporate third party libraries. For example in some circumstances openssl (how the splunk executable communicates with splunkd) will exit(2) on its own. Compiling a complete list right now is not likely to be useful.
Instead I would suggest: