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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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SysV initscripts

January 31st, 2006

Dear Sysadmin Lazyweb: Is there some best practice for developing /etc/init.d scripts for multiple distributions, or am I forced to maintain multiple completely divergent versions of the same script (with the RedHat version using stuff from /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions and the Debian version using start-stop-daemon, etc.)?

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