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[Bill Nottingham]

Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Russell Coker (russell at coker.com.au) said: 
> > > Well, it will break parts of the initscripts if it's just done
> > > in the daemons. :)
> > 
> > Naturally changes to the daemon, the init scripts for the daemon, and to the 
> > SE Linux policy need to be synchronised.  But apart from that do you have any 
> > problem with the idea?
> 
> You need to change the generic initscripts as well... they rely
> on the pid file location.

Moreover, you break the FHS (and therefore, LSB.)

Bill