When a service stops my first thought will be check what ${init} says rather than a myriad of different inconsistent logs and badly written shell scripts say.

When a service stops my first thought will be check what ${init} says rather than a myriad of different inconsistent logs and badly written shell scripts say. Then I'll check those logs if required. Regarding DNS, DHCP et al, yes you have a point. Managing restarts on fail is a logical extension of init however.