Memcached doesn't setsid on startup, dies when started by Chef

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install memcached on Ubuntu 10.04 using Opscode's memcached recipe
2. See that, although Chef starts the service, it's dead when the bootstrap 
finishes

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
ps -A -o pid,user,args | grep memcached
Expected: a memcached process
Actual: no memcached process

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
root@localhost:~# memcached --version
memcached: invalid option -- '-'
root@localhost:~# memcached -V
memcached: invalid option -- 'V'
root@localhost:~# dpkg -l memcached
ii  memcached      1.4.2-1ubuntu3 A high-performance memory object caching sys

Please provide any additional information below.
Further discussion and proposed solution:
http://help.opscode.com/discussions/problems/763-starting-memcached-on-a-host

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Marcel.C...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2011 at 3:38

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I'm pretty sure this is fixed in the scripts for 1.4.7-rc1.

If you want ubuntu to fix it, there's a ticket over on their bug tracker about 
updating, you should nag/pipe up.

Gonna close this out though.

Original comment by dorma...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2011 at 10:31

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