Ubuntu's Success Story: the Upstart Startup Manager (LinuxPlanet)

Posted Apr 9, 2010 15:10 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Ubuntu's Success Story: the Upstart Startup Manager (LinuxPlanet) by kreijack
Parent article: Ubuntu's Success Story: the Upstart Startup Manager (LinuxPlanet)

That stops the job at hand, doesn't disable it... It boils down to what is more reasonable to do on next boot with a job that was stopped on shudown:

Each boot should offer the same configuration, set permanently in some way. That a particular job was or not running on shutdown is inconsecuential.
A reboot is simply a temporary service interruption, it makes sense to keep stopped jobs stopped, and so on.

The first above is easier to handle, and has the benefit that a reboot gets you into a known good state (so a reboot is useful to unwedge a machine, also in case it got its jobs messed up in some unknown way).