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

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 11/21/14, 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?
I think there's some outstanding bugs where the providers assume they 
know best, and really need to respect the resource attributes given by 
the user so that the user can override.  Those are just bugs in the 
provider implementation.  However, I don't have any good workaround 
suggestions other than submitting pull-requests and unfortunately don't 
have the bandwidth right now.