init daemon replacement

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Fri Sep 1 12:58:23 UTC 2006


On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Mark Bradbury wrote:

> I noticed on the Ubuntu lists that they are looking at replacing
> init(1) with upstart;
> info here
>
> http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart.html

This seems quite interesting. As there were already discussions about 
initng, this seems much better, as it could run old init scripts, but adds 
event based capability. And it is pretty abmitions with replacing also 
cron etc.

> Just wondering what the thoughts are regarding Fedora, and if Upstart
> may be taken on in fedora 7.
>
> Disscussions welcome :)

Adam Pribyl




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