Yep, that's exactly the mess I'm talking about. Scripts that are ALWAYS incorrect, incomplete, and unreliable.

For example, can it kill a runaway Apache process tree? Or safely confine the CGI scripts so that they don't cause the OOM killer to terminate the sshd?

And what happens if the "stop" command hangs indefinitely?

> And no need to track pid. It uses pgrep with the flags and the program name by default. I believe OpenRC does the same.

Facepalm.