In the previous posts, I’ve covered the various features that make Upstart a good service manager, but these are things you’ll find in most others as well. It’s now time to cover that which is singularly unique to Upstart, Events.
Start and Stop
You’ve already seen the start and stop commands, which do somewhat unsurprising things [...]
Continuing the series of posts on Upstart 0.5, in this post I’ll be talking about the various ways that Upstart allows you to manage the lifetime of a job. These are guarantees that Upstart provides you so that when you start a job, you know what will happen if that job dies unexpectedly or [...]
In my previous post on Upstart 0.5, I talked about the ways you can define a service for Upstart to manage and introduced the different processes in a job’s lifecyle. In this post, I’ll look into the detail of those processes and their environment.
Upstart ensures that each process it runs has a sane, safe [...]
Next month I am hoping to release Upstart 0.5.0, the culmination of almost a year’s worth of work on it. Comparitively the version that shipped in edgy (0.2.x) was simply an essay to figure out the basics and the version in feisty thru hardy (0.3.x) a first draft. The new version has been stripped back [...]
Since my last post on the subject back in December, I’ve had quite a few people ask me how the flying lessons were going. Truth is that there hasn’t really been that much to report until now.
Once you’ve covered the basic stuff, you start on what are known as circuits (which my last two [...]
