Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com)

Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 4, 2006 17:53 UTC (Wed) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
Parent article: Replacing init with Upstart (Linux.com)

This looks really exciting to me. It's clean, small and featureful. I especially like the ability to hook service startup not only to dependent services, but to system events like hotplugged hardware. Their wiki page is also worth a read, but doesn't appear on the linked article or the upstart.ubuntu.com site:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit

And it's pleasingly hacker friendly, unlike the XML mess that you get with SMF or launchd. The job configuration files in fact look a whole lot like the existing RC scripts we are used to, with appropriate structure in place of the existing comment-based metadata. Bravo!

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