upstart configuration

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 14:35:25 GMT 2008


Hello Upstart Developers,

in the process of migrating Fedora/Red Hat Linux to upstart I came across 
several issues.

With the current implementation I see the following problems:
	- the job description files are very static. Dependencies can only be added, 
modified, deleted by modifying this one job file (not package friendly)
	- there is no dependency like "start me before service xyz"
	- turning a job/service off requires removing the job file, which may be solved 
by symlinks?

Maybe I am overlooking some recently introduced mechanism, but I am willing to 
help to implement a solution for this, either in upstart directly or via an 
external control app via D-Bus. The app would require adding/removing 
dependencies via D-Bus.

What do you think?

-Harald



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