diff -u nginx-0.6.31/debian/control nginx-0.6.31/debian/control
--- nginx-0.6.31/debian/control
+++ nginx-0.6.31/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 Package: nginx
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
 Provides: httpd
 Description: small, but very powerful and efficient web server
  Nginx (engine x) is a web server created by Igor Sysoev and kindly provided
diff -u nginx-0.6.31/debian/init.d nginx-0.6.31/debian/init.d
--- nginx-0.6.31/debian/init.d
+++ nginx-0.6.31/debian/init.d
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 
 set -e
 
+. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+
 case "$1" in
   start)
 	echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
@@ -52,9 +54,12 @@
           --exec $DAEMON || true
       echo "$NAME."
       ;;
+  status)
+      status_of_proc -p /var/run/$NAME.pid "$DAEMON" nginx && exit 0 || exit $?
+      ;;
   *)
 	N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
-	echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
+	echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}" >&2
 	exit 1
 	;;
 esac
diff -u nginx-0.6.31/debian/changelog nginx-0.6.31/debian/changelog
--- nginx-0.6.31/debian/changelog
+++ nginx-0.6.31/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+nginx (0.6.31-2ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/control: Add Depend on lsb >= 3.2-14, which has the
+    status_of_proc() function.
+  * debian/init.d: 
+    - Add sourcing to '. /lib/lsb/init-functions' 
+    - Add the 'status' action (LP: #251985).
+
+ -- Andres Rodriguez <andreserl@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:48:49 -0500
+
 nginx (0.6.31-2ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
 
   * Fixed FTBFS on ubuntu by properly defining IOV_MAX to its Linux