> >     apmd atd crond dhclient dhcpcd gpm halt identd inet
> >     httpd kudzu klogd lpd mcserv named nfs nfslock pcmcia
> >     portmap random routed rstatd rusersd rwhod sendmail smb
> >     snmpd sshd syslog xfs xntpd ypbind
> 
> I'd object to 'httpd' instead of 'apache'. What If I want to run both
> roxen for normal sites and apache for SSL sites?
> Also it's not consistant with 'sendmail' (why not 'smtpd' then?)

The point surely is genericness

How can a vendor depend on apache being started when the user might have
thttpd instead for their cgi ?

Being able to say 'after httpd' knowing all the httpd daemons are up is
what you would want for say a web monitoring tool

> >     pidofproc basename
> 
> to be consistant with the other names those 2 functions should rather be
> named kill_proc and pid_of_proc IMHO...

Good point

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