upstart as cron replacement

upstart as cron replacement

Posted Aug 31, 2006 19:58 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813)
In reply to: upstart as cron replacement by kh
Parent article: What's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstart

I tend to agree with "do just one job...". While the Replacementinit wiki page mentions the potential to replace cron, at, and inetd at least the initial scope is targeted at init and initscripts. Dynamically ordering them based on hardware detection sound questionable, most init scripts do not do hardware specific tasks.

I find it suspect that chkconfig is called "under-implemented" when every RedHat derived Linux and FreeBSD include it.

Attempting to morph a new init/initscripts program designed to be better at system start up, shutdown, and hotplug tasks into a do all multi user cron, at, and an inetd replacement should be fun to watch. I smell security problems. Anybody remember the years of alerts that followed the introduction of xinetd?

My first critical thoughts aside, I hope it does a good job addressing the use cases described. I'll kick back in the armchair and watch, maybe my cynicism will be unfounded :)

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