> I mean, hijacking system logging? What could possibly justify doing that in an init system? DBJ's /service also hijacks logging. In fact, every decent init s

> I mean, hijacking system logging? What could possibly justify doing that in an init system? DBJ's /service also hijacks logging. In fact, every decent init system hijacks logging -- you want your init to daemonize processes, and when you daemonize a processes you want its stdout to get logged properly.