On 3 February 2012 19:08, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > I have been looking into the issue of upstart. From: > > http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ > > Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which > handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during > shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. > > and is therein listed as: > > Known Users > > Ubuntu 6.10 and later > Fedora 9 and later > Debian (as an option) > Nokia's Maemo platform > Palm's WebOS > Google's Chromium OS > Google's Chrome OS > > Copyright © 2010 Canonical Ltd. Upstart is a trademark of Canonical Ltd. > > which date indicates that the above list may be obsolete, and probably is > obsolete in that upstart appears to be incorporated into EL 6 . > > From the upstart FAQ: > > What are the example jobs? > > The example jobs are based on the /etc/inittab file found in Ubuntu, and > thus also Debian. They run the same scripts as the old System-V init > packages on the same events, using the System-V compatibility tools to > generate runlevel events. > > Why don't the example jobs work on my distribution? > > Because every distribution has used System-V init differently, every > distribution's /etc/inittab file (on which the example jobs are based) is > different. > > You'll need to examine this file from your distribution, compare it against > the one found in Ubuntu or Debian, and modify the example jobs > appropriately. > > End quotes. I apologize for my lack of free time to dig up the details on > upstart in SL 6, but if anyone is familiar with upstart as used in SL 6, I > would appreciate links to the appropriate documentation, any EL changes from > the Debian/Ubuntu distribution source, and related upstart material (a state > transition chart would be nice given that upstart is event driven). Replies > on upstart off list are invited. > > I note that openSUSE has included upstart as of version 11.3 Milestone 4, > but not as default (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart). A colleague and > I did a comparison of the boot on an openSUSE machine versus a SL 6.1 > machine -- otherwise essentially identical hardware platforms with very > similar application and systems environments -- and noted a difference. As > openSUSE evidently does not default to upstart, this may explain at least > one difference in behavior -- he took mostly defaults from openSUSE during > the installation phase. > > Yasha Karant
Yasha, Please, please use the Scientific Linux fora for this sort of discussion. Comments about other non-EL distros are really not relevant to this mailing list. I leave it to you to look up the URL and register. Alan.