The problem is actually solved, see http://welz.org.za/notes/on-starting-daemons.html http://welz.org.za/notes/on-starting-daemons.html - it is just that people

The problem is actually solved, see http://welz.org.za/notes/on-starting-daemons.html http://welz.org.za/notes/on-starting-daemons.html - it is just that people thesedays write flaky daemons which crash and want to have the init system restart services blindly - rather leave that to the monitoring tool which checks the service offered, so that we also notice if it is stuck in an infinite loop. Or even better, make crashes something to be eliminated, not papered over.