On ClearOS 6.x - regardless whether fetchmail is running or not - the output is like this :-

[root@danda ~]# service fetchmail status

[root@danda ~]# 

If we look at "/etc/rc.d/init.d/fetchmail" we see this for the status command

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  stop) 

        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "

        killproc $prog

        echo

        /bin/rm -f $pidfile

        RETVAL=$?

        ;;

  status)

        ;;

  restart|reload)

        $0 stop

        $0 start 

        RETVAL=$?

        ;;

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No wonder there is no output - there is no command to do anything :-(
changing it to this

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  stop) 

        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "

        killproc $prog

        echo

        /bin/rm -f $pidfile

        RETVAL=$?

        ;;

  status)

        status $prog  

        ;;

  restart|reload)

        $0 stop

        $0 start 

        RETVAL=$?

        ;;

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We then get

[root@danda ~]# service fetchmail status

fetchmail is stopped

[root@danda ~]# 

or

[root@danda ~]# service fetchmail status

fetchmail (pid 25527) is running...

[root@danda ~]# 

Surely this is a bug and not intentional ???

EDIT: Just checked Version 7.2 and the exact same problem....