Re: F11 httpd - non-root "service httpd status" reports wrong

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> As pointed out by others, it is a bug since it is saying something that is
> wrong.
> But I would argue even further:
>   1) The information should be available to the normal user - just like yum
> list and rpm -q
>   2) What have you gained by hiding the info that can be found by os
>   3) We want to minimize the need for privilege escalation, not maximize

Well then, if everybody seems to agree that it's worth the trouble for
all pidfiles to be world-readable, and for 'service foo status' to
always work non-root, then httpd is hardly alone, so there's a bunch
more bugs to file against:

httpd
sendmail
dovecot
amavisd
mysqld (in rhel; but not fedora)
...and many more

-- 
Jason

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