Upstart 0.5 Are We There Yet?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:37 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:

> 2008/1/16, Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com>:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:45 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > > 2008/1/16, Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com>:
> > > > Disable a job from its definition, instead of just deleting it.
> > > >
> > > >         I have again become unconvinced of the usefulness of this,
> > > >         instead favouring something more like "profiles" or "flags"
> > > >         where jobs can be disabled and enabled en-masse.
> > > >
> > > >         Unless somebody can provide a use-case for having a defined job
> > > >         that cannot be started?
> > >
> > >
> > > I can only speak from my own experience. E.g. I have apache2 installed
> > > on it, but disabled it from starting at boot (I only need it on
> > > special occasions and then I start it manually).
> > > It's definitely possible to achieve that with profiles or flags, I
> > > only think it would be more effort and less convenient.
> > >
> > But this is different again, this isn't disabling the job since you want
> > to be able to start it manually -- this is causing the job to ignore
> > events; arguably you can do that already by commenting out the
> > appropriate lines in the definition.
> 
> This approach has some problems though:
> 1.) It changes the md5sum of the file. This results in dpkg prompts on
> package upgrades.
> 
So would any method of disabling a job from its definition ;)

The disabling would have to be external to the job files.

Scott
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