named: unrecognized service?

[John Summerfield]

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]$

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Cheers
John

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