Targeted fix for #3851

Older / user written providers may just return a bare string from their ___cmd
functions instead of an array.  This forces the command as used to be an array
without breaking the cases where they (correctly) do return an array.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/service/base.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/service/base.rb
index 0bf2b20ea..183bf33e3 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/service/base.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/service/base.rb
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Puppet::Type.type(:service).provide :base do
         if c = @resource[type]
             cmd = [c]
         else
-            cmd = self.send("%scmd" % type)
+            cmd = [send("#{type}cmd")].flatten
         end
         return texecute(type, cmd, fof)
     end