diff --git a/src/lib66/exec/ssexec_service_status.c b/src/lib66/exec/ssexec_service_status.c
index 39683bd07b9c53cc68b2f35114babaa397786d95..14585cbad5b526ee422ae70244344a03433f4fbf 100644
--- a/src/lib66/exec/ssexec_service_status.c
+++ b/src/lib66/exec/ssexec_service_status.c
@@ -222,9 +222,9 @@ static void info_get_status(resolve_service_t *res)
         if (!state_read(&sta, ste, name))
             log_dieusys(LOG_EXIT_SYS,"read state of: ",name) ;
 
-        if (!service_is(&sta, STATE_FLAGS_TOINIT)) {
+        if (!service_is(&sta, STATE_FLAGS_ISSUPERVISED)) {
 
-            status = "unitialized" ;
+            status = "unsupervised" ;
 
         } else if (!service_is(&sta, STATE_FLAGS_ISUP)) {