check service running by ActiveState #814
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See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159174/differences-between-inactive-vs-disabled-and-active-vs-enabled-services
We currently have false-positives as reported by @atomic111
To reproduce: Start Ubuntu 16.04, install postgresql, check
systemctl show --all postgresql
and inside of inspec shellservice(postgres.service).running?
. Inspec will show running as false, but systemctl has more info:We are looking at substate only, we need to look at activestate.