Upstart
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| Developer: | Scott James Remnant |
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| Initial release: | 24 August 2006 |
| Latest release: | 0.3.0 / 17 October 2006 |
| OS: | GNU/Linux |
| Use: | Init daemon |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
| Website: | upstart.ubuntu.com |
In Unix computing, Upstart is an event-based replacement for the init daemon written by Scott James Remnant, an employee of Canonical Ltd. Upstart operates asynchronously — as well as handling the starting of tasks and services during boot and stopping them during shutdown, it supervises them while the system is running.
Upstart is included in the Edgy Eft release of Ubuntu, as a replacement for sysvinit. Upstart is intended to take a larger role in Feisty Fawn, replacing cron, atd, anacron and inetd.[1]
[edit] See also
- initng — another asynchronous replacement for init
- launchd — introduced into Mac OS X in v10.4 to replace init and other system startup scripts as well as crond
- smf — OpenSolaris service management facility
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