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Old 12-14-2009
I do not think it is a deficiency since the intelligence to gracefully shut down / start up processes and first check if they are running or down is in the stop/start scripts...
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Old 12-14-2009
I think that's what Ubuntu tries to achieve with Upstart, among other things. But this is probably beyond the scope of this thread.
 
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