[Debian] Init script is missing the 'status' command

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The init script in Debian package offered in repository at 
http://packages.prosody.im/debian does not have support for checking the status 
of the service (whether the service is running or not).

This can cause some issues for configuration management systems that check if 
the service is not running or not, or for monitoring tools (if you want to 
depend on standard ways to invoke those checks).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Prosody via Debian repository offered by prosody.im.

2. Try checking the status of Prosody service by running:

service prosody status

Expected results:

The Prosody service is reported to be started or stopped. An appropriate error 
code is returned by the call (0 if service is started, non-0 otherwise).

Actual results:

The status command is not recognised. Instead the init script usage is 
displayed:

----%----
[info] Usage: /etc/init.d/prosody {start|stop|restart|reload}.
----%----

Environment:

Debian 7 Wheezy, i386
Prosody 0.9.7 (package 0.9.7-1~wheezy1) from http://packages.prosody.im/debian.

From what I can tell, this should be rather easy to resolve. I'm attaching a 
patch that seems to work fine for me at least.

Small note:
I don't really check this e-mail account, but I will have a look here and there 
on the issue if there's any feedback needed :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by branko.m...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2015 at 8:51

Attachments:

• prosody_init_status.patch

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Hi, thanks for the report! (and for digging out your Google account)

Thanks for the patch also. I'll take a look at it for the next release we make.

Original comment by MWild1 on 6 Feb 2015 at 11:11

• Changed title: [Debian] Init script is missing the 'status' command
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Component-Scripts, Milestone-0.9, OpSys-Linux