Re: Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

[Sir Gallantmon <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:10:34PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart0.6.0
>
> The features highlight list has:
>   Communication with the init daemon over D-Bus.
>
> > Questions? Comments?
>
> Does this mean that running dbus will be required to reboot/shutdown
> the system?

No. The init daemon speaks the dbus protocol, and can be communicated
with over the system daemon. But it can also be talked to directly.

Bill

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Why aren't the sysVinit scripts being ported over to native upstart scripts? I thought the reason why upstart was adopted was to be able to utilize the benefits of native upstart scripts (event based daemon handling, etc.)?

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