I'm a newbie trying to write a SysV init script for ipfm in RedHat 9. Looking at all the RedHat-installed scripts for services such as httpd and sshd, it appears that RedHat has the scripts ...

I like init scripts in that you can specify exactly what you want started and how to start it, and are boatloads easier to 'debug' than, say, 'svcadm'.