While not exactly a "show stopper," I find that a number of the init 
scripts (namely apache, bind, and maybe cyrus, IIRC) race too quickly 
during a 'restart.'

For instance, my nameservers (all gentoo) with more than ~12 zones take 
a second to stop listening on the interfaces and close the logs. Before 
they stop, init has already tried to start named again. You see the problem.

This leads to failed starts which always makes me panic for a second 
before I realize it just ran too fast. Throwing a 'sleep' in there 
doesn't always seem like a good idea because the shutdown time is 
variable and putting a 'sleep 5' between start and stop makes things 
annoying.

Just food for thought, I suppose. Anyone else notice this? (FWIW, I've 
seen this on almost every other linux distro out there as well, but 
fixing it wouldn't keep me up at night.)

TIA.
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Eric Sammer
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