> If you want to make your daemon interoperate with systemd's status > mechanism to the extent of having custom status reports, you have to > modify your daemon to send readiness notification messages through a > socket to the systemd service manager. That way, not only will > "/etc/init.d/jh status" report your custom statuses, so too will > "systemctl status jh" and (possibly) so too will (some) GUI > administration tools.
Jonathan, Thanks for your response. Looks like it is easier to include a new case, e.g., real-status), to the init script and use that rather than trying to make systemd to find out the real status of the service. -- Juha