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Why would you have one to start with? (Score:1)
In my experience, service / daemon initialisation is something best performed by an operating system specific installation package, such as a redhat rpm / debian dpkg / win32 msi. Just about every operating system variant has their own unique twist on the required behaviour of a service / daemon.