How do I change the booting order of services?

[Dave Kempe]

Anders Häggström wrote:
> Well, I'm still in the process of learning Upstart. But that sounds
> like a good solution. I've read that Upstart support "profiles" that I
> see as en equivalent to runlevels. Please correct me if I'm wrong, and
> point me in the right direction to solve my problem.

Whats the problem you are actually trying to solve? I haven't seen a 
great use for runlevels for a long time, for general server usage.
This is one of the key differences between Redhat and Debian and strikes 
back to an argument held long ago on Debian mailing lists, which 
effectively means that runlevels as you know them don't really exist in 
Debian at all. Basically, the Debian way, (if I may be so bold as to say 
i know what it is), is that if you want the package to run, install it 
and it will run. If you don't want it, don't install it.

If you want it to start when you ask it to, and not by default, consult 
update-rc.d.

upstart replaces init, and will eventually replace init.d scripts. 
However you need to understand the heritage and source of the packages 
in order to grasp how long this is going to take... its not that simple 
on the whole, and effectively widens the fork between Debian and Ubuntu 
larger than is justified.

For servers and even embedded things, I have found upstart to be a great 
replacement for rc.local hacks and /etc/inittab hacks, and would gladly 
see it extended to replace all the init scripts and cron itself 
eventually. This is going to take some time :)

thanks

dave