On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I have been looking into the issue of upstart. From:
>
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
>
> 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.
>
> 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).

I'm not too sure how copyright works but since there's a "13 December
2011 Upstart 1.4 Released!" on that page, it's more up to dat than you
seem to think.

1) What are you trying to do?

2) SInce upstart runs in hybrid mode on SL6 (and even on latest Ubuntu
alpha), you can write a sysvinit script for whatever custom daemon you
want to launch and upstart'll call it.