As you may expect from open source world thingy, almost every Linux distribution has developed it’s own way to manage our favourite RDBMS service. Yet none is perfect, or even some of them seems to not work in real server scenario1.
In this post I’m trying to compare and point out most annoying aspects of initialization scripts that I had to face in production.
In ‘old days’ probably all Linux distributions used to start and stop services using so called init scripts usually written in Unix shell (sh or Bash). But situation is not so simple these days anymore.
Folks started to think about improving things, like making system initialization faster by parallelization of starting services. So Upstart was developed in …
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