Currently start function contains this: start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DNSDIST --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \ -b -m -- --supervised -u ${DNSDIST_USER} -g ${DNSDIST_GROUP} \ -C $DNSDIST_CONFFILE ${DNSDIST_OPTIONS} Probably work of some "overzealous" file editor..
Thanks for reporting, this is corrected now.