On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:08:30 +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemons.
Systemd may provide the same simplification of handling system deamons, maybe we can look at it also. But it may be to bloated to be considered as KISS :)
Paul