named: unrecognized service?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:00:08 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:

> > I wanted Neal to dig a little deeper and find the problem himself. My
> > small set of questions lead to enough details to locate the problem.
> 
> That's fine, and I try to do that too, but you did make an assumption 
> (that he wasn't root) without any evidence to support it.

Running chkconfig _with_ sudo and service _without_ sudo at least was
inconsistent enough and made me point out that chkconfig --list should not
need sudo either:

>>>> /sbin/service named status
>>>> named: unrecognized service
>>>>
>>>> sudo /sbin/chkconfig named --list
>>>> named           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

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).