[chef-dev] Re: Re: why-run requires an init script for 'service' resrouce

[AJ Christensen < >]

You could explicitly use the Init or Simple service provider instead of using the Redhat one, if you aren't using enable/disable, etc. These obviously won't work without the presence of an init script (no?)

Cheers,

--AJ

On 11 December 2012 14:53, Mike < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Anyone care to chime in on this? Is this a legit bug, or am I seeing
something wrong?

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Mike < "> > wrote:
> Recently I came across an oddity in Chef 10.14.x/10.16.x, that looks
> like a regression in behavior.
>
> I looked around for any existing tickets on this particular topic, and
> couldn't find anyone with this specific issue.
>
> Running a recipe like this[0] that declares a service resource based
> on parameters available[1] runs correctly on 10.12, but then breaks on
> anything past that [2].
>
> Error message on my CentOS system comed from here[3].
>
> It looks as though the assumption is that the service provider will
> always have an init script, typically to do the `action :enable`
>
> Since this is not the case, maybe one fix would be to modify this
> line[4] to only cover 'enable', and handle checking for a
> start_command, stop_command, etc and if none are provided, then use
> the init.d script logic.
>
> I am curious to know if anyone else is using non-init service
> invocations and have come across this, also if anyone wants to fix it,
> I'm happy to help out.
>
> -Mike Fiedler
>
> [0]: https://gist.github.com/4235082#file_default.rb
> [1]: http://docs.opscode.com/resource_service.html
> [2]: https://gist.github.com/4235082#file_chef_10.14.4_output.txt
> [3]: https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/10-stable/chef/lib/chef/provider/service/redhat.rb#L50
> [4]: https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/10-stable/chef/lib/chef/provider/service/redhat.rb#L48