Hi All,
We're looking to land Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu Precise early January 2012. If you
have an Ubuntu
Precise test system [1] and you'd like to help with testing these new features,
read on...
= New Features =
The two main new features are:
- new 'setuid' and 'setgid' stanzas
Allows you to specify the user and group a job runs as
(this should help minimize the intricate su/sudo/start-stop-daemon
command-lines)
- Logging of job output for system jobs [2]
Job logging is enabled by default in 1.4. Since this is the first version of
Upstart
that writes to *any* files, this is quite a big change. 3 new command-line
options
have been added to support this feature:
'--no-log' (disable logging entirely)
'--logdir=DIR' (specify alternate log directory)
'--default-console=VALUE' (specify default value for 'console' stanza).
= How to Obtain the Upstart 1.4 Package =
please add the following 'upstart-job-logging' PPA [3] to your system and give
it a spin:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jamesodhunt/upstart-job-logging
= Feedback =
Please provide feedback via a bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+filebug
= Further Details on Features =
Full details on these features can be found in the usual places:
- init(5)
- init(8)
- cookbook:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#console-log
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#configuration
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#setuid
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#setgid
Thanks for your help.
Kind regards,
James.
[1] - Usual caveats apply: do *not* install this on any critical systems.
[2] - Two limitations to be aware of:
- logging *only* currently applies to system jobs,
- any job that produces output and ends *before* the disk becomes
writeable
will not currently have output logged.
Note: both limitations are currently being addressed.
[3] - https://launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/+archive/upstart-job-logging
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