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Why not contribute better init scripts upstream?

Ultimately that is be the goal indeed.

At the same time all init script are not suitable upstream; keeping the balance between simplicity and features is a hard one. Not every use would require a 10 foot long scripts that cover some awkward features that is seen in 1% of the cases - yet having a repository of capable init scripts seems a good way to mitigate the issue.

I asked the same thing to my teammates; it seems to be the plan ultimately, but upstream contributions are not necessarily easy to get in, especially on big pieces of code.

I am the Debian (and by approxiate extension, Ubuntu) maintainer of the Redis package. Assuming its done correctly, multi-installation would be a great feature to have - please send a patch to the BTS.

I added similar functionality to Gunicorn (where multiple gunicorn workers per physical machine is a rather common requirement).

The redis init-script in the repo is only a sample I hacked as an example; to avoid an empty repo :) I've tested and it's working, though I'll perform some more checks tmr and will gladely commit it back.

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