> On 23 Mar 2016, at 18:39, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > > When that is said, I suspect it is in general a good idea to not use > symlinks in /etc/init.d/.
I would generally agree, I'm presently setting up VM with a preinstalled service in /opt running as its own user. When this service updates itself it will only have access to the service location in /opt/<name> and /srv/<name>, if I need to update the init script then I can do so in this manner.