Upstarts for non-root users

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Fri Dec 10 00:36:56 GMT 2010


Heh funny you should ask that one, but I just added the code to my local
branch to do that for 0.6 - you can't run your "own" upstart since it relies
on being PID 1 to do process supervision, but you'll be able to have your
own jobs, events, etc.

Scott

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam at gmail.com> wrote:

> I seem to remember being told by upstart folks that work is under way
> to allow non-root users to configure their own jobs for upstart (not
> just start/stop jobs). Is there an ETA on this?
>
> Alternatively (or better yet), can users run their own upstarts/inits?
> This seems to be a more general solution.
>
> Currently, we're using a mix of supervisord and our own control
> scripts that capture some of upstart's dependency/event infrastructure
> (which supervisord lacks).
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