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Re:How Ubuntu startup script deletes everything by jrockway on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @11:19PM (#1249041)
/etc/inittab, /etc/init.d/ and now 'upstart'...

Don't forget daemontools.

Daemontools is nice because it works fine as a init.d replacement, and you can just run the individual programs when appropriate. I use it to start emacs, offlineimap, etc., when I log in for the first time.

Re:How Ubuntu startup script deletes everything by wendroid on Thursday April 08, 2010 @05:13AM (#1249473)
Ah supervise, thou art wonderful

    daph:/etc/service# svstat *
    apache: up (pid 20546) 7315393 seconds
    dndr: up (pid 32629) 3757174 seconds
    getmail: up (pid 31632) 4487516 seconds
    momo: up (pid 22310) 16934 seconds
    mush: up (pid 10708) 222304 seconds
    p9: down 7991823 seconds, normally up
    u9fs: up (pid 13547) 1968001 seconds
    win2k: up (pid 3291) 8180332 seconds