>Number: 12489
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /sbin/route exits with 0 on some errors
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 2 15:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lars Eggert
>Release: 3.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
USC/ISI
>Environment:
FreeBSD tan-e.isi.edu 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #2: Wed Jun 30 13:03:07 PDT 1999 larse@tan-e.isi.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/XBONE-KAME-063099 i386
>Description:
route returns 0, even when exiting with an error.
This makes it difficult to use it in scripts.
>How-To-Repeat:
tan-e# route add 10.10.10.10 -interface lo0
add host 10.10.10.10: gateway lo0
tan-e# route add 10.10.10.10 -interface lo0
route: writing to routing socket: File exists
add host 10.10.10.10: gateway lo0: File exists
tan-e# echo $status
0
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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