@@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ function restart_service() {

 function screen_it {

     NL=`echo -ne '\015'`

     SCREEN_NAME=${SCREEN_NAME:-stack}

+    SERVICE_DIR=${SERVICE_DIR:-${DEST}/status}

+

     if is_service_enabled $1; then

         # Append the service to the screen rc file

         screen_rc "$1" "$2"

@@ -699,7 +701,7 @@ function screen_it {

             screen -S $SCREEN_NAME -p $1 -X log on

             ln -sf ${SCREEN_LOGDIR}/screen-${1}.${CURRENT_LOG_TIME}.log ${SCREEN_LOGDIR}/screen-${1}.log

         fi

-        screen -S $SCREEN_NAME -p $1 -X stuff "$2$NL"

+        screen -S $SCREEN_NAME -p $1 -X stuff "$2 || touch \"$SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME/$1.failure\"$NL"

     fi

 }

@@ -724,6 +726,47 @@ function screen_rc {

     fi

 }

+# Helper to remove the *.failure files under $SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME

+# This is used for service_check when all the screen_it are called finished

+# init_service_check

+function init_service_check() {

+    SCREEN_NAME=${SCREEN_NAME:-stack}

+    SERVICE_DIR=${SERVICE_DIR:-${DEST}/status}

+

+    if [[ ! -d "$SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME" ]]; then

+        mkdir -p "$SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME"

+    fi

+

+    rm -f "$SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME"/*.failure

+}

+

+# Helper to get the status of each running service

+# service_check

+function service_check() {

+    local service

+    local failures

+    SCREEN_NAME=${SCREEN_NAME:-stack}

+    SERVICE_DIR=${SERVICE_DIR:-${DEST}/status}

+

+

+    if [[ ! -d "$SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME" ]]; then

+        echo "No service status directory found"

+        return

+    fi

+

+    # Check if there is any falure flag file under $SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME

+    failures=`ls "$SERVICE_DIR/$SCREEN_NAME"/*.failure 2>/dev/null`

+

+    for service in $failures; do

+        service=`basename $service`

+        service=${service::-8}

+        echo "Error: Service $service is not running"

+    done

+

+    if [ -n "$failures" ]; then

+        echo "More details about the above errors can be found with screen, with ./rejoin-stack.sh"

+    fi

+}

 # ``pip install`` the dependencies of the package before ``setup.py develop``

 # so pip and not distutils processes the dependency chain

@@ -954,6 +954,8 @@ sleep 1

 # Set a reasonable status bar

 screen -r $SCREEN_NAME -X hardstatus alwayslastline "$SCREEN_HARDSTATUS"

+# Initialize the directory for service status check

+init_service_check

 # Keystone

 # --------

@@ -1726,6 +1728,8 @@ if [[ -x $TOP_DIR/local.sh ]]; then

     $TOP_DIR/local.sh

 fi

+# Check the status of running services

+service_check

 # Fin

 # ===