pbs_server exit code 0 even if fails to start with invalid nodes file

[necrolyte2]

OS: CentOS 6.7
Torque Ver: torque-5.1.1.2-1_18e4a5f1

Create invalid nodes file

echo "node.example.com np=" >> /var/spool/torque/server_priv/nodes

Start/Restart torque server

/usr/local/sbin/pbs_server -d /var/spool/torque

The return code is 0 even though it failed to start

Relevant log file

11/10/2015 12:48:30.595;64;PBS_Server.10715;Req;setup_nodes;setup_nodes()
11/10/2015 12:48:30.595;64;PBS_Server.10715;Req;setup_nodes;token "np" in error on line 1 of file nodes
11/10/2015 12:48:30.595;01;PBS_Server.10715;Svr;PBS_Server;LOG_ERROR::PBS_Server, pbsd_init failed

[depiBASC]

I can confirm this behaviour.

In our case, the nodes file had duplicate node names.

The "service pbs_server start" command reported success, yet the server did not start. Removing the duplicate node names resulted in the correct behaviour.