When i was still doing such things i preferred to use the facilities provided by the Operating System. That is: svc on Solaris, rc on FreeBSD and services on W

When i was still doing such things i preferred to use the facilities provided by the Operating System. That is: svc on Solaris, rc on FreeBSD and services on Windows. I never did anything serious with Linux but i suspect there is a way a Linux distribution manages it's services. On Solaris and FreeBSD i found it helpful to always contain the deployed software in packages -- this takes some effort first but saves one from reinventing the wheel all over again (including service management).