Start-stop-daemon is the program that is used by the DEBIAN style initscripts to start and stop services. This program is part of the "dpkg"package by Ian Jackson. However there is also a seperate C version (theoriginal is in perl) available written by Marek Michalkiewicz. I'm includingit for your convinience.Note that the latest debian dpkg packages (4.0.18 and later) containa much improved update-rc.d. This code is almost a year old.The original announcement follows:From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>Message-Id: <199606060324.FAA19493@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>Subject: Fast start-stop-daemon in CTo: debian-devel@lists.debian.orgDate: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 05:24:18 +0200 (MET DST)Some time ago I wrote a faster C replacement for the start-stop-daemonperl script.  I use it for some time now (the most recent changes werejust a nicer help screen; the code is quite stable).This makes the system boot faster (especially on low end machines),and important system startup scripts no longer depend on another bigpackage (perl).  Maybe in the future we can get to the point wherea minimal system will work without perl installed at all (packageswhich need it in {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts would depend on perl).The only problem known so far to me is that I have to reinstall thisprogram after every dpkg upgrade which overwrites it with that niceslooow perl script :-).Just compile this program and drop the binary in /usr/sbin insteadof the original /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon perl script (make a copyof it first, just in case).  See below for source code.  I placed itin the public domain, but if it has to be GPL-ed to be included indpkg, just tell me.  Including it in dpkg would close Bug#1670.I am posting it here so that it can be tested by more people thanjust me.  Bugs are unlikely though.Have fun,Marek