Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux Ninth Edition, April 2009

Figure 3-15 Legacy Package Time Line
At any step along the way, an error will result in the script exiting abnormally (with
an exit code of 1). For example, if a package service is unable to be started, the control
script will exit with an error.
NOTE: This diagram is specific to legacy packages. Modular packages also run external
scripts and “pre-scripts” as explained above.
If the run script execution is not complete before the time specified in the
run_script_timeout parameter (page 199), the package manager will kill the script. During
run script execution, messages are written to a log file. For legacy packages, this is in
the same directory as the run script and has the same name as the run script and the
extension.log. For modular packages, the pathname is determined by the script_log_file
parameter in the package configuration file (page 200)). Normal starts are recorded in
the log, together with error messages or warnings related to starting the package.
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