Disconnected jobs

[Daniel L. Miller]

Is there a method to:

1.  Tell Upstart that a given process is an instance and should be 
supervised?  Example:  I have a number of VirtualBox headless servers 
that I start using simple Upstart scripts.  I terminate the server 
process - and I've told Upstart not to restart it in the script using 
the normal exit clause.  Now, I manually start the server process using 
an external VirtualBox tool or webserver.  The process is now running - 
but Upstart doesn't know about it.

2.  Trying to get supervision of a multiple forking daemon working can 
be...difficult.  In particular, I've been trying to get the current 
version of ASSP supervised in its daemonized mode.  It appears this perl 
script forks at LEAST twice when doing so - and gives Upstart fits.  It 
works fine as a foreground non-forking script - which is how I run it 
now.  In the meantime, until I reboot my server, I have a process named 
"assp" with a status of "stop/killed" - which I cannot release.

-- 
Daniel