[00:24] <Zer> Howdy. I was looking at Ubuntu's /etc/init, and it seems there is 'expect fork' which will track the first fork, and then without that it'll just treat it like a normal executable, but...
[00:25] <Zer> what if you have a server where the command line just starts/stops it, and the process itself is not related (I presume it just executes instead of forks). Is there any way to do this form with Upstart? (Nginx being what I am looking at, it starts it, and also has stop signals)
[20:15] <Younder>  upstart doesn't yet have "Events generated at timed intervals or scheduled times"
[20:16] <Younder> will it?
[20:16] <sadmac2> Younder: it will.
[20:16] <Younder> so it will replace cron?
[20:18] <Younder> I seem to have said something along the line 'cron is outdated, upstart events will replace it', but that is clearly not true. yet
[20:19] <Younder> on #ubuntu
[20:19] <JanC> not yet
[20:19] <sadmac2> Younder: will linux replace windows? We don't really make those decisions, we just make an offering :)
[20:21] <JanC> you could do it now by having a daemon (cron or something else) issue upstart events, similar to the mountall tool  ;)
[22:43] <rberger> Is there a way to 'export" an environment variable that is set inside of a script, lke pre-start script to set an env variable inside a init configure file?
[22:44] <rberger> I want to set an env variable used thru out an init configuration by doing string manipulation of another environment variable that is passed in as an instance variable.