> Yes, absolutely I have copied an init script / makefile or whatnot and if it worked after I tweaked it then I went on my business. But I didn't use it as is b

> Yes, absolutely I have copied an init script / makefile or whatnot and if it worked after I tweaked it then I went on my business. But I didn't use it as is because of superstition, but rather because it now worked I believed it correct. That, plus the whole "ugh, I don't want to have to write all this boilerplate from scratch". Initscripts are mostly boilerplate, and it's just plain tedious do to anything other than copy/paste what you know works.