Subject: Re: [vserver] Ubuntu 10.4.4, cron and upstart
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:04:54 +0100

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:09:36AM -0600, Dan Urist wrote:
> FWIW, I've found upstart to be utterly unreliable in ubuntu
> 10.04 vservers (running under Debian lenny and squeeze). I've
> tried the recommendations in the wiki; sometimes services
> start, sometimes they don't. I've seen this especially with
> cron.

> Since I'm managing the vservers with puppet, I'm using it to
> distribute real sysv-init scripts (stolen from debian) for
> the few system daemons that need to run, like cron. At least
> upstart is pretty reliable for running the sysv-init stuff.
> It's a crappy solution, but it works for me. I'm hoping things
> get better in the next Ubuntu LTS release.

if you already have sysv-init scripts, what's the point of
running upstart? I mean, don't get me wrong but the sysv
init style should do perfectly fine with any sysv-init
scripts without the need for an actual init process ...

best,
Herbert

> -- 
> Dan Urist
> durist@ucar.edu
> 303-497-2459