Proposed 1.0 semantics specification
Scott James Remnant
scott at netsplit.com
Wed Jun 17 22:33:50 BST 2009
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:20 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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:
>
That's certainly the simplest way to do it, though what would look to
see whether that service is running or not (to report the problem) and
how often would it check/how long after boot? :)
Scott
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