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upstart as cron replacementupstart as cron replacementPosted Aug 31, 2006 15:31 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)In reply to: upstart as cron replacement by kh Parent article: What's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstart I think the idea makes sense. From the upstart blog: In fact, the goal is that upstart should also replace the "run event scripts" functionality of any daemon on the system. Daemons such as acpid, apmd and Network Manager would send events to init instead of running scripts themselves with their own perculiar configuration and semantics.It is actually simpler to have a single syntax for any "event" than it is to have a different one for init, cron, and so on. The Unix philosophy of "do one thing" only works if you have a simple, elegant way to combine the tiny, sharp programs. Upstart actually seems like chance to extend this philosophy to more parts of a modern system.
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