"service saned status" fails unless called from root

[Rolf Leggewie]

I observed the following on my trusty machine.

$ service saned status
/etc/init.d/saned: 73: [: =: unexpected operator
saned is not running, but pidfile existed.
rm: remove write-protected regular file ‘/var/run/saned.pid’? n

$ sudo service saned status
saned is running.

In other words, the status call fails unless done from root.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

verified on vivid, too, although sometimes the command seems to succeed.

[David Ward (dpward)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid) reached end-of-life on February 4, 2016.
Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-standard-support on April 25, 2019.

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