[chef] doing it wrong

[Maven User < >]

Hi again all - 

I've made a great deal of progress with my own cookbook now but have a question about service management.

If the thing I'm installing eventually installs a service (we have or own service install script), is there a good way to test if the service is already installed?

I tried to just stop, deploy, start things and it only will run the first instance of the service call.

Any suggestions?

This feels wrong...