rc.stupid a Linux daemon that:
- repeatedly runs a start script at system startup until this script exits with zero status
- regulary runs a check script
- runs a stop script at system shutdown
Why ?
Because startup systems like systemd and upstart are sometimes hard to tune in many situations, like MySQL data directory on a networked filesystem.
As rc.stupid does nothing other as running scripts (or anything that may be executed) you may find other use cases like simple clustering.
InitNG strived to replace the old System V Init completelty. It offers faster startup through parallelization, service and demon monitoring, logging facilities and a dynamic run-time dependency configuration.