[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: CHEF-2880 debian policy and service provider

[Tollef Fog Heen < >]

]] Bryan McLellan 

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Tollef Fog Heen 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> > I think we shouldn't use invoke-rc.d, but rather use the service
> > command.
> 
> This sounds like reverting CHEF-597 [1], yes?

Yup.

> Other than Laurent's use case which we've come up with workarounds
> for, is there any reason not to? This would fix CHEF-2880 simply by
> ignoring the Debian service policy.

Well, I guess Thom (who filed 597) could argue that if you've configured
your system to not start $service, finding it running would be a
surprise.  To that, I'd respond that manually calling /etc/init.d/foo or
service foo start does not check run levels etc, and to me, doing
explicit management in chef recipes is mentally much closer to calling
service or the init script directly than it is to ask init to put the
service in the state it should be in according to rcN.d.

The latter might be useful, something like

service «foo» do
        action :default
end

which would start or stop the service as appropriate.

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