[chef] Re: Point of service resource *_command attrs?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, November 21, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:

> I can't figure out what the *_command attributes are actually for.
>  
> Setting init_command, start_command ... etc... to a value seems
> pointless when the chosen underlying provider has all of its hardcoded
> information that it uses.
>  
> service 'foo' do
> init_command '/bin/true'
> start_command '/bin/true'
> action [:enable, :start]
> end
>  
> ==> "unable to locate the init.d script!"
>  
> Any ideas?
Probably need to set the status command so chef can tell whether it needs to 
start the service. Also, the enable action may be problematic if you’re not 
following your init system’s conventions.  
>  
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