Daniel Veillard wrote: For reference, here are the Fedora guidelines too (they draw upon the LSB ones): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/Initscripts Yup, +1, looks good to me. Do those standard functions deal with the multiplicity of error codes? When you commit this, do you think you could also add a line into qemud/.cvsignore to get it to ignore the generated file libvirtd.init (or else, I suppose, commit this generated file)? Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903