Re: @AC - Sorry, but no
BS - All the init scripts were copy and paste of 100s of lines of boilerplate to get command line options "start/stop/restart/etc/...." to work.
All they do in the end is launch or kill a program command line... Using hand-rolled bash code to track PIDs in a var file.
Some of them detect crashes and restart (never in a standardised way), some of them support setting uid/pid/chroot and sandbox (never in a standardised way), some of them implement event stuff that should be in SysV init but was never added (events like Ctrl-alt-del and UPS error events are there, hardware change is not)...
Anyone who has learnt both InitRC and systemd will know why systemd exists.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
