Upstart Improved Documentation and New Features for Ubuntu Natty Release

Posted by akgraner on Mar 26, 2011 11:32 AM EDT
Linux Pro Magazine; By Amber Graner
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"Jobs and Events are the primary Upstart concepts," writes James Hunt Ubuntu Upstart maintainer at Canonical. "The version of Upstart provided with Ubuntu Natty provides a new “initctl” command “show-config” which when coupled with a new tool “initctl2dot” allows these interactions to be understood visually."

In this post today, Hunt explains the new “initctl show-config” command as well as the "initctl2dot" command and show in a series of visualization graphs how the typical Ubuntu system starts.

Hunt uses his blog to explain to users what Upstart really means and highlights a few new commands. In his series of posts on Upstart Hunt shows that new with the Ubuntu Natty cycle is a focus on documenting the mysteries of Upstart. For users who want to know more about Upstart, how it works, and see the full documentation can start with Hunt's blog post.

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