Anyone who brings up sysvinit and the &quot;30x 50-line shell scripts&quot; is clearly one whose perception is limited to the ad-hoc LSB-based sysvinit setups that once permeated GNU&#x2F;Linux, but which have always been merely one relatively inefficient approach. Even back when Debian first introduced their sysv-rc, we already had IBM SRC, daemontools, simpleinit and NetBSD rc.d which showed different solutions.<p>EDIT: Let me join in on the moaning about downvotes. Not that I understand why.