Comment 2 for bug 878322

Except the case pattern there doesn't cope with instance ids in parens. That'd be easy to fix:

if ! status myjob VAR=val | grep -qE '^[^ ]+( \([^)]\))? start/'; then
  start myjob VAR=val
fi

except if the job is stopped, status will complain about "Unknown instance", so I ended up with this:

if initctl list|mawk '$1=="myjob" && $2=="(" INSTANCE ")" && $3~/start\// { exit 1 }' INSTANCE="$id"; then
  start myjob VAR="$id"
fi

Definite interface smell here..