Just to point out the obvious: inittab
should only be used to control services belonging to the root user. This is apparent from the permissions needed to edit the file. Web services don't belong to root, although to capture port 80, they do need the help of root.
daemontools
is a set of programs used in controlling user programs. Using the script svgroup
, you can setup the permissions necessary for any member of a given group to control the service using svc
.