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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <9509210011.AA06450@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>,
Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:
>I so much prefer just looking through /etc/rc.local (and now,
>/etc/sysconfig) since it collects in one place the needed stuff.

The problem is that *when* you have something complex, you have to pull
that stuff out of /etc/rc.local instead of just running /etc/init.d/foo stop.