[04:00] <yodgo> !ops
[08:07] <jarl> Hi I need a little help making my own upstart conf file. Is anybody active here now?
[18:29] <juan__> I'm trying to use upstart to launch x as me (directly instead of using xdm/etc), but i'm no sure what to put as started on, is there a state for "boot finished" or would i be better of finding out xorgs dependancies (HAL and filesystems?)?
[19:28] <ilowe> hi guys, is there a way for me to specify a command to stop a job?
[19:30] <sadmac> ilowe: I don't understand the question
[19:30] <ilowe> sorry: I have a command that starts a process but I need to use a different command to shut it down gracefuuly
[19:30] <sadmac> juergbi: depends on how your distro sets up upstart.
[19:30] <ilowe> I don't want to have the process simply terminated by PID 
[19:31] <sadmac> ilowe: try putting it in pre-stop
[19:31] <ilowe> will stop succeed even if the PID no longer exists? I mean, pre-killing it in pre-stop won't cause an isseu?
[19:32] <sadmac> not entirely sure. I don't think it will be a disaster even if there is a little hiccup.
[19:40] <ilowe> sadmac: killer! that worked perfectly! Thanks
[19:40] <sadmac> ilowe: awesome
[20:21] <ilowe> any ideas on how to respond to custom events? I want my job to start on runlevel 2 as well as when abitrary event "xyz" occurs (via emit)
[20:22] <ilowe> I've tried adding "start on xyz" to my job but "initctl emit xyz" doesn't seem to start the job
[20:26] <sadmac> ilowe: you had it right... dunno what the issue is
[20:27] <ilowe> sorry, I was trying to put the two conditions on the same line with an "or" which wasn't working
[20:27] <sadmac> ilowe: what version of upstart?
[20:27] <ilowe> splitting them on two lines works beautifully
[20:27] <mbiebl> ilowe: that must be 0.3.x then
[20:27] <ilowe> 0.3.9-8
[20:28] <sadmac> ilowe: yeah. in 0.6 you can't have multiple start on lines and have to use or. in 0.3 there's no or and you have to use multiple start on lines
[20:30] <ilowe> is there a PPA build? I'm still on Jaunty on most of my servers.
[20:48] <ilowe> how would I use instance jobs with events to start those jobs? I mean, I'd like to emit "xyz" and have a bunch of instances of a job start.
[20:50] <sadmac> ilowe: not sure if you can in 0.3
[20:50] <ilowe> OK, how 'bout in 0.6?
[20:51] <sadmac> if the environment from the event causes the instance's name to evaluate to something not used a new instance is born
[20:54] <wasabi> ilowe, I use a task job to start instances.
[20:55] <wasabi> Oh, .3
[20:55] <ilowe> wasabi: I can use 0.6 if I have to... I'm figuring out the upgrade path right now...
[21:47] <JanC> running 0.6 on jaunty isn't a good idea probably, so you would have to upgrade to karmic I think