> There's nothing stopping you from tearing something down from an init script Except most init scripts I've seen are rather brittle and only "work" if the PID

> There's nothing stopping you from tearing something down from an init script Except most init scripts I've seen are rather brittle and only "work" if the PID dance is exactly as the author predicted, are not declarative and hard to debug. I don't want to go back to init scripts, for all systemd's faults, the past was worse. Using the CLI as my RPC mechanism etc. just sounds like I should spend a bunch of time doing work that systemd can do a better job of managing for me.