I would like to propose that all scripts placed in /etc/init.d should be required to support at least the four arguments 'start|stop|reload|restart'. In cases where there is currently no 'restart', it could easily be formed as the sequence of actions to perform a stop followed by a start. In cases where there is no 'reload' and the daemon(s) in question can't do on-the-fly reloading of config files, the 'reload' token would degenerate to an alias for 'restart'.
Bdale
