This wouldn't play very well with "modern" versions of sysvinit: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts Besides, it's more

This wouldn't play very well with "modern" versions of sysvinit: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts Besides, it's more a case of changing from a list of imperative programs replete with code duplication to a declarative model, rather than going from shell scripts to $language_of_the_day scripts. This is what I tried (and failed) to express in my earlier post.