Proposed 1.0 semantics specification

[Casey Dahlin]

On 06/17/2009 03:13 PM, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Yes, I do follow.
> 
> This kind of "boot essential" job has been speculated for a while, but
> no design for it has come forwards.
> 
> Upstart's design does inherently mean that services may simply not be
> started, and that's not considered an error condition.
> 
> Scott
> 

The right way IMHO is to have a service/state called "system_normal" or what have you, which depends on everything that should be running every day. When that service is not running, there's a problem. If we have cron functionality and inverted dependencies, we have everything we need:

task
1m after startup
when not system_normal
exec /usr/local/bin/do_email_sysadmin.sh