Linux service is not started by when run by Chef but starts fine when run manually

[yoshiwaan]

There was a similar (although not answered) discussion here:

Unable to start apache service in redhat

I have written script to start apache server function start() { if [ -z “${apache_running}” ] ; then echo "Apache is not running" echo "Starting Apache Tomcat" cd /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.64/bin/ sudo ./startup.sh else return 0; fi } it is working fine in ubuntu, centos but it is unable to start the service in redhat and is not showing any error during the run and specifying starting tomcat everytime I run the client. But I was able to start the service with the following command serv…

If you're using an older version of the varnish cookbook I know a buggy
monkey patch caused service detection failure to break