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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:20:45AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> Well, it's been a long story now. Every time someone comes
> with the idea of adding init to BSD, other people feel very
> strongly that they hate init and that it must not be in BSD.

/sbin/init existed on BSD almost forever. You could fake a tty to use it
for restarting the programs. But the real issue is what restart
functionality the OP really wants. There's more than one way to do it
and whether the SysV init approach is appropiate depends. E.g. what
happens if some part of the configuration is rejected and the daemon
just spins?

Joerg