bash script starting service over ssh - bash

Question

I'm trying to start a service over ssh in a bash script that I just call from the command line. I can do the following commands: (I have ssh keys in place so I don't need to put a p/w in)
ssh -t -t user#server 'sudo /sbin/service test stop' -- Works fine, stops the service
ssh -t -t user#server 'sudo /sbin/service test status' -- Works fine, status's the service
ssh -t -t user#server 'sudo /sbin/service test start' -- Doesn't start the service ???
This is with a custom init.d script running on centos 6.7
Does anyone have any ideas?
or see what I might be missing?
Thanks!
EDIT: Here is the init.d script:
#!/bin/bash
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: test
# Required-Start: networking
# Required-Stop: networking
# Default-Start: 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description:
### END INIT INFO
#
###source function library
source /etc/init.d/functions
APPNAME="test"
APPDIR="/tmp"
CONFIGDIR="/tmp/config"
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/$APPNAME
PIDFILE="/var/run/$APPNAME.pid"
###Declare variables for test
CONFIG="test.config"
start() {
echo -n "Starting $APPNAME: "
source "${CONFIGDIR}/source.txt"
daemon --pidfile="$PIDFILE" "/tmp/${APPNAME} ${CONFIGDIR}/${CONFIG} >> /tmp/console.log 2>&1 &"
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && {
touch $LOCKFILE
pidof $APPNAME > $PIDFILE
}
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping $APPNAME:"
killproc -p "$PIDFILE" $APPNAME
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $LOCKFILE $PIDFILE
return $RETVAL
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status -p "$PIDFILE" "$APPNAME"
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo "Usage $prg {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

Answer 1

I found a work around:
ssh -t -t user#server 'sudo bash -s' < '/tmp/start_test.sh'
and then on the server:
/tmp/start_test.sh
#!/bin/bash
sudo service test start >> /tmp/start.log
exit 0

Answer 2

I tested this one successfully:
echo "sudo service test start && exit" | python -c 'import pty, sys; pty.spawn(sys.argv[1:])' ssh user#server