upstart

Start/stop as arguments to the job

Asked by Seshu Reddy Cheedepudi

Please excuse if this is trivial/implicit/already documented. But, my question is how can I pass the start/stop as an input argument to the job in an upstart task?

Eg:
start on starting gdm
stop on stopped gdm

exec /etc/mybashscript <start/stop based on event this is executed>

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Best Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) said : 		#1

They already are arguments, the events are made of environment variables, e.g.

 start on starting gdm

 exec echo $UPSTART_START_EVENTS $JOB

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Seshu Reddy Cheedepudi (sreddy) said : 		#2

Thanks Scott James Remnant (Canonical), that solved my question.