Add upstart support

[jvz]

Upstart is the init system on Ubuntu, and it's offered as an option in Fedora, Debian, and RHEL. One of its main features is init scripts that are started/stopped based on event dependencies such as network availability, disk/partition availability, etc.

Now, as it stands, msm works with upstart by default as upstart supports SysV init scripts. However, explicit support for events could be added for better init support and configuration on Ubuntu Server and such. As this is merely a feature request, I'm willing to work on implementing this feature if it's feasible. I just wanted to make the request public before I went on any coding binges to do so.

[maxolasersquad]

++

[marcuswhybrow]

Sounds like a good idea.

[joecabezas]

+1!!!

[marcuswhybrow]

If you think it's possible @jvz then I would recommend giving it a bash. I've had a read of the Upstart documentation at that link, but I'm not sure I know enough to do a good job myself.

If you made MSM support upstart I would certainly be interested in merging it in. I'm not sure, however, how much of a change it would be, hopefully we just need to add some code to the file and maybe change the installation process under Ubuntu (or other upstart compatible systems.)

[jvz]

In general, the init script as is should most likely work with upstart, but
an additional feature that could be added would be event dependencies. Such
a feature could later be extended to support systemd as well, but I
couldn't find documentation on how to do so last time I looked around.

On 5 November 2012 12:25, Marcus Whybrow notifications@github.com wrote:

If you think it's possible @jvz https://github.com/jvz then I would
recommend giving it a bash. I've had a read of the Upstart documentation at
that link, but I'm not sure I know enough to do a good job myself.

If you made MSM support upstart I would certainly be interested in merging
it in. I'm not sure, however, how much of a change it would be, hopefully
we just need to add some code to the file and maybe change the installation
process under Ubuntu (or other upstart compatible systems.)

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[marcuswhybrow]

I'm not familiar with systemd (until I just read about it now), so you most likely know more than I on the subject 😄.

[jvz]

I'm not too familiar with systemd, either, except that it works via a
similar system of dependencies that upstart uses.

On 5 November 2012 12:35, Marcus Whybrow notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm not familiar with systemd (until I just read about it now), so you
most likely know more than I on the subject [image: 😄].

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[marcuswhybrow]

Hah. We're both ignorant on this subject then.

[jvz]

See #113 for a pull request for the Upstart part.