Sys-V-Init scripts from upstart files

[Erich Schubert]

Hi,

> > 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.

We could then still use
'start-stop-daemon --background daemon', can't we?

It's not as if it's hard to background a service which doesn't; it's
the other way round that is difficult. And getting the I/O right
sensibly.

Note that some init systems (such as minit) expect daemons to use
stdout/stderr for logging.
So getting a good handling of I/O (btw, one thing where sysvinit
really sucks...) right is one of the more difficult things here.

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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