My personal experience with writing sysvinit scripts agrees pretty well with s_tec's view. Those shell scripts would easily have been replaced by trivial .ini f

My personal experience with writing sysvinit scripts agrees pretty well with s_tec's view. Those shell scripts would easily have been replaced by trivial .ini files and contained several bugs before I managed to figure out how to use start-stop-daemon correctly and fix some typos. I have not used systemd myself but it seems trivial in comparison to my experience writing sysvinit scripts.