upstart configuration

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Thu Nov 6 14:56:49 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 15:35 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:

> 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)
> 
This is an ongoing discussion: what ideas do you have?

> 	- there is no dependency like "start me before service xyz"
> 
0.3/0.5:
start on starting syz
              ~~~

> 	- turning a job/service off requires removing the job file, which may be solved 
> by symlinks?
> 
Again an ongoing discussion: what ideas do you have?

Do you want to disable it from automatic starting, or prevent manual
starting as well?

Scott
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