What tool can I use to manage upstart services?

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How should I configure upstart runlevels ? Of course I could edit /etc/init/XX but that wasn't right way to do this, I think.

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 09:40

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yup! you have a tool , of course GUI .

Open your terminal and type this

sudo apt-get install bum

Type as BootUP Manager in unity dash , that will open .

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answered Sep 04 '12 at 09:40

Raja G

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bum is only for SysV Init, not for Upstart – Florian Diesch Sep 04 '12 at 10:22

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 10:51

Technically the .conf files in /etc/init/ are configuration files so you are free to edit them.

In Ubuntu 11.04 and later you can use .override files to modify Upstart jobs without modifying the .conf file: To modify the job foo as defined in /etc/init/foo.conf create /etc/init/foo.override and put kin the things you want to change.

Unfortunately the documentation for the .override files seems to be a bit poor so I'm not really sure about the details here.

Upstart Intro, Cookbook and Best Practises uses an override file containing a manual stanza to prevent an job from beeing started automatically:

echo "manual" >> /etc/init/myjob.override

Just copying the .conf file into the .override file seems to work, too.

Manually poking the files is the "right" way to manage upstart. — Oli, Sep 04 '12 at 11:11
More details on the .override file can be found in archive of Upstart Blog — Cas, Feb 17 '13 at 18:24

What tool can I use to manage upstart services?

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