status ecs returns 0 when service is not running

[thesmith]

I guess it should be returning a 3, but it returns a 0:

status ecs
ecs stop/waiting
echo $?
0

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-status.html

[jhaynes]

Hi @thesmith,

This behavior is related to the init system, upstart, rather than ECS directly. Other upstart managed services behave similarly. The 0 exit code can be viewed as a successfully run status command rather than information about the service. Instead, that information is contained in the string stop/waiting.

If you have other questions, feel free to re-open this issue or create a new one.