named: unrecognized service?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:22:59 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > And, of course, it would be much more of an assumption to guess that
> > "service ... status" does not need superuser privileges to read pid/lock
> > files (and to do stuff beyond that).
> 
> Easy to test:
> [summer at potoroo boot]$ service httpd status
> httpd (pid 22610 22609 22608 22607 22606 22605 22604 22603 22601) is 
> running...
> [summer at potoroo boot]$

Weak assumption. Try: /sbin/service --status-all

There are quite some "permission denied" errors in the output. And
when dealing with bugs and unexpected behaviour I simply don't want
to guess what side-effects they may be.