Upstart job best practices?
Peter Matulis
peter.matulis at canonical.com
Fri Sep 10 12:42:16 BST 2010
On 09/03/2010 07:26 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've been looking into a few bug reports regarding regressions due
> to migrations from sysvinit to upstart.
>
> These are mostly just user education issues, but nonetheless, its
> unclear exactly what to do with upstart jobs. I am wondering if
> there is an existing list of best practices for upstart jobs.
>
> Namely:
>
> * is console output ever a good idea?
> * how should things be logged?
> logger?
> * Is there a preferred logging facility?
> * whats the best
> way to inform users of potential failures?
>
> Before I run off and create a wiki page describing upstart best
> practices, I figured I'd ask here to see if it already exists.
>
> Thanks!
>
I've been asking the same kind of questions. We need better information
on how to troubleshoot services that don't start.
Peter Matulis
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