[clue-tech] upstart

[Adam Bultman]

I'd probably say, "Because upstart is nicer".

I've written a few things for upstart, and I've found it to be a lot
nicer to use it instead of init.  You can control things with it in a
more elegant way than with init.  Plus there's none of that scary "kill
-HUP init" when you wanna make changes :) (And yes, I know there's other
ways to do that.)

Take a look; hopefully the documentation is better than last time I
played with it (which admittedly was a while ago - Ubuntu Edgy, I think). 

Adam


Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 18:50 +0000, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone investigated upstart?  It is Ubuntu's replacement for sysvinit and is event based.  Fedora and Frugalware using it too.  Ubuntu and Fedora are still using it in SysV-compatible mode for now, so it will be interesting to see how it performs in full native mode.
>>     
>
> I noticed this when I upgraded to F9.  I'm trying to figure out why they
> changed what wasn't broken. 
>