service-0.5.14-alt1 has no manpage about "service", so the details of how /sbin/service works can not be studied quickly (at least, I'd include the information about the location of individual service scripts -- /etc/init.d/*).
OK, I'll add it.
service-0.5.22-alt1 -> sisyphus: * Thu Jan 26 2012 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux> 0.5.22-alt1 - start-stop-daemon: implemented support of /proc/%d/exe pointing to names with " (deleted)" prefix. - minilogd: changed to create /dev/log socket world writable (closes: #12564). - init.d/functions (UnmountFilesystems): implemented mountpoints decoding to match getmntent(3) behaviour (closes: #17118). - init.d/functions (start_daemon): + added --background option (closes: #26529); + added --check option. - service.8: imported from Fedora (closes: #22166).