On 3 February 2012 19:08, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have been looking into the issue of upstart.  From:
>
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
>
> Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which
> handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during
> shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.
>
> and is therein listed as:
>
> Known Users
>
>    Ubuntu 6.10 and later
>    Fedora 9 and later
>    Debian (as an option)
>    Nokia's Maemo platform
>    Palm's WebOS
>    Google's Chromium OS
>    Google's Chrome OS
>
> Copyright © 2010 Canonical Ltd. Upstart is a trademark of Canonical Ltd.
>
> which date indicates that the above list may be obsolete, and probably is
> obsolete in that upstart appears to be incorporated into EL 6 .
>
> From the upstart FAQ:
>
> What are the example jobs?
>
> The example jobs are based on the /etc/inittab file found in Ubuntu, and
> thus also Debian. They run the same scripts as the old System-V init
> packages on the same events, using the System-V compatibility tools to
> generate runlevel events.
>
> Why don't the example jobs work on my distribution?
>
> Because every distribution has used System-V init differently, every
> distribution's /etc/inittab file (on which the example jobs are based) is
> different.
>
> You'll need to examine this file from your distribution, compare it against
> the one found in Ubuntu or Debian, and modify the example jobs
> appropriately.
>
> End quotes.  I apologize for my lack of free time to dig up the details on
> upstart in SL 6, but if anyone is familiar with upstart as used in SL 6, I
> would appreciate links to the appropriate documentation, any EL changes from
> the Debian/Ubuntu distribution source, and related upstart material (a state
> transition chart would be nice given that upstart is event driven).  Replies
> on upstart off list are invited.
>
> I note that openSUSE has included upstart as of version 11.3 Milestone 4,
> but not as default (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart).  A colleague and
> I did a comparison of the boot on an openSUSE machine versus a SL 6.1
> machine -- otherwise essentially identical hardware platforms with very
> similar application and systems environments -- and noted a difference.  As
> openSUSE evidently does not default to upstart, this may explain at least
> one difference in behavior -- he took mostly defaults from openSUSE during
> the installation phase.
>
> Yasha Karant

Yasha,

Please, please use the Scientific Linux fora for this sort of
discussion. Comments about other non-EL distros are really not
relevant to this mailing list.

I leave it to you to look up the URL and register.

Alan.