upstart configuration

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/7 Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com>:
>>    In the 0.10 design, this is supported by adding a stanza like
>>    "manual" or "disabled" to the job - or removing one like "auto"
>>    (not yet decided)
>
> Where is this information stored? In the job file itself?
> This imho would be a disadvantage to an external state/profile file,
> as on package upgrades (at least on Debian and I guess rpm-based
> distros too), you'd get prompts from the package management system.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

    I think that this information should be saved in a job profile
file -- items like these shouldn't be stored in the individual
jobfiles -- it creates more work for folks trying to upgrade to
upstart, whereas you could query job information via initctl much
easier.
-Garrett