LSB-ish init script, RFC

[Casey Dahlin]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:32 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
>   
>> It's not. Many daemons can be multi-instanciated (just from the top of
>> my head clamav & tomcat, would want this too)
>>     
>
> Nothing wrong with that - but if you want to do this, the right thing to
> do in the new init system should be to create a new toplevel service for
> each instance.
>
> /etc/init.d/tomcat-testing:
> exec /usr/bin/tomcat /etc/tomcat/testing.conf
>
> /etc/init.d/tomcat-production:
> exec /usr/bin/tomcat /etc/tomcat/production.conf
>
>   
There's a bunch of interesting things in Upstart that let you achieve 
these kinds of goals. Services which take arguments as one example.

--CJD