Linux upstart instead of init.d
intro article
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7033/1/
but it makes it painful to figure out why something doesn’t start as there’s no way I’ve found to debug – i.e. it run the start/stop, etc in their own process and messages seem to get sent to /dev/null…an echo “hello” 1>&2 doesn’t end up in the logs. Someday I’ll understand why…
another link: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/