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Please tell us about these improvements over shell init scripts.

Let's say a have a program to run - nginx - very popular program. Tell us, please, what improvements the good stuff gives me?

BTW, in my opinion, the SMF has been written "because we can" (use XML for configs and Java for its processing) not because shell init scripts has been broken. There are many strange reasons why some programs were written or has been adopted.



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