Description of problem: After editing a configuration file it is important to restart services, however! I've noticed many times in the past that in most cases a configruation file is specified in the headers of the init scripts, it just occurred to me that it would be quite possible for inotify to be used to monitor these files and where appropriate automatically restart services which have had their configuration file(s) modified. Important points to consider if this method were to be used: 1, The requirement for a notification system if a service fails because of a recent change 2, Revert to a previous configuration in the event of service failure This is just an idea, but an intriguing one to me, to have services automagically restart themselves (and possibly dependant services also) would be a big step forward in management of a server.
Interesting idea. I suspect that changes for this would go some place other than chkconfig, as it would be a part of a larger system change that obsoletes it.
Closing this, as it's a more general discussion point for replacing init; it's not relevant to chkconfig itself, as it would never be implemented there.