[chef-dev] Re: need help fixing CHEF-2345 unable to override supports :status for redhat services

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai!

On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:26, KC Braunschweig 
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 wrote:

> @new_resource.supports[:status] = true
> 
> The effect is that :status always = true and you can't set it to false
> such as if you have a misbehaving 3rd party init script you can't fix.
> This is lame.
> 
> Anyone got another angle or a way to make this work?

Have you tried using status_command parameter on the services with init 
scripts that don't have status?

service "third-party" do
  status_command "a command that checks if it's running"
end

You would of course use whatever command is appropriate.