As far as I know, plugging into init is the responsibility of the person packaging the software for a particular distribution. If a package for your distro is n

As far as I know, plugging into init is the responsibility of the person packaging the software for a particular distribution. If a package for your distro is not available and you're just compiling from source or downloading a standalone executable, you have to write your own anyways. It might be different if I were an experienced bash scripting guy, but I find chucking the path to the thing an "ExecStart" line a lot more straightforward then writing a script that parses arguments and calls start-stop-daemon and all that.