[chef] Creating custom services

[Luis Cosmes < >]

Hi!

Say I have a Unix wrapper that is used to start/stop/etc the apache web server.  The name of the wrapper is runapache and runs off of a /software/bin/ directory.  I accepts typical start/stop/restart directives, but also some custom ones to recreate http.conf files and such.  Why you need this runapache wrapper you ask?  Well, it's a long story, but I have to live with that company decision I didn't make and make it work ;) 

Based on http://docs.opscode.com/resource_service.html  I thought I could create a custom service with something like:

service "runapache" do
  supports :restart => true, :stop => true
  init_command "/software/bin/runapache"
  restart_command "runapache kill"
end

However, when I try to make use of this service I get an error saying runapache does not exist in /etc/init.d/  I understood init_command should be used to determine an alternate location.  What am I missing?  I am using Chef Version: 10.18.2

Thanks,

Luis