More Ubuntu inittab/event.d woes

Not only did Ubuntu change inittab to event.d/, now they changed the format of files in event.d/ in the move to 7.04 - Feisty Fawn, and I didn't find the format defined in any relevant man page.

I upgraded to 7.04, and svscan wasn't running any more. I added the /etc/event.d/svscan from my previous posting, and when I tried to start it I got the useless error:

start: Unknown job: svscan

Brilliant... So what's wrong now? Apparently the format of the file. The correct format is now:

# svscan - daemontools
# 
# This service maintains an svscan process from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on runlevel 1
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
start on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /command/svscanboot

Now it's again possible to run start svscan to fire it up.

posted at: 13:10 | path: /2007/07/04 | permanent link to this entry