On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:

> I haven't found precisely what you are looking for, but I have found
> the correct man pages, or at least some more man pages.
>
> Looking at the documentation here
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/deployment.html
> It says
> "Processes are known to Upstart as jobs and are defined by files in the
> /etc/init directory. Upstart is very well documented via man pages. Command
> overview is in init(8) and job syntax is described in init(5). "
>
> looking at
>   man 5 init
>   man 8 init
> It describes Upstart.
>
> As I said, it doesn't completely answer your question, but hopefully
> it points you in the right direction.

  i've been through those pages and i still haven't found an
unambiguous description of what happens when there is no
/etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf.  barring that, the best *guess* i can come
up with is that, if that particular file is missing, then upstart will
simply scan all of the /etc/init/*.conf files and start anything with
no dependencies.  or more technically, anything with the dependency:

  start on startup

which includes rcS.conf and a couple readahead files.  beyond that,
i'm not sure but i'll keep reading.

rday

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