Issue
What is the best way to start a service on Debian through a program? I used to use '/sbin/service start', but I recently came across a system where '/sbin/service' did not exist, so starting the daemon would fail.
Solution
copy and customize /etc/init.d/skeleton (e.g. into /etc/init.d/specksyn) and add symlinks from e.g. /etc/rc2.d/S99specksyn to it, etc. etc.
Answered By - Basile Starynkevitch