Sys-V-Init scripts from upstart files

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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On Wed 2007-06-13 05:15:18 -0400, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> On Jun 12, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Marco, can you provide an example of an upstart script which is too
>> complex for automatic conversion to a System V init script?
>
> Upstart needs daemons which do not fork, most other init systems
> need daemons which do.

fwiw, runit, minit, and other daemontools-style init systems prefer
daemons which do not fork as well.  Having
non-forking/non-backgrounding processes makes reliable supervision
much more straightforward.

     --dkg
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