Hi Zoran, Even I am new to upstart and me too don't have full understanding of upstart. But from my previous project experience which uses scripts to instantiate the components similarly you can use script with delay before spawning the component as much as you want. Please correct me If I am wrong. Thanks Arpit <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Zoran Bosnjak <<a href="mailto:zoran.bosnjak@sloveniacontrol.si">zoran.bosnjak@sloveniacontrol.si</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello all, I just want to check if there is any way to insert a delay (a few seconds), between respawn attempts. In case of some strange service crash (for example some missing resource) the service is probably going to crash again very soon and upstart would give up after detecting "respawning too fast". The user will end up with stopped service even when the missing resource is back. Something like additional stanza "respawn delay <seconds>" would be very usefull, to make upstart more general. But I am new ot upstart and there might be some obvious solution to this problem, so I would appreciate any answer. I have scanned over mail archives and I have only found some patch proposals, but nothing in the official documentation. Thank you for your answers. Zoran -- upstart-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Thanks Arpit Gupta 9346584501