On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:32:28AM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > Is it the job of the package maintainer of a daemon (for example > OpenSSH) to adapt whatever initialization the upstream developer > creates (BSD in this case I imagine) to the Debian style of System V > init? Yes. The OpenSSH package maintainers (of which I'm one) do exactly this. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]