Hi, I am running upstart 0.5 and have a question about the respawn option. I have started init with the debug option. My job file looks like this ***/etc/init/jobs.d/job2*** start on emit_job2 respawn limit 4 500 exec bin/sleep 200 From the console, I do the following initctl emit emit_job2 I then get the pid of job2 (sleep) and kill it. I expect it to be respawned but it does not. I am trying to understand how the respawn limit should work. From the front page, the documentation says "The respawn limits function as follows: If the process is respawned more than count times within an interval of timeout seconds, the process will be stopped automatically, and not restarted. Unless set explicitly, the limit defaults to 10 times within 5 seconds. " Here is what i see in the /var/log/messages Aug 23 10:01:28 10 <1219485688,743544>init: Connection from private client Aug 23 10:01:30 10 <1219485690,550660>init: Handling emit_job2 event Aug 23 10:01:33 10 <1219485690,556292>init: job2 goal changed from stop to start Aug 23 10:01:33 10 <1219485690,556928>init: job2 state changed from waiting to starting Aug 23 10:01:33 10 <1219485690,558956>init: Handling starting event Aug 23 10:01:34 10 <1219485690,560232>init: job2 state changed from starting to pre-start Aug 23 10:01:34 10 <1219485690,560836>init: job2 state changed from pre-start to spawned Aug 23 10:01:35 10 <1219485695,104116>init: job2 main process (2163) Aug 23 10:01:35 10 <1219485695,106244>init: job2 state changed from spawned to post-start Aug 23 10:01:35 10 <1219485695,106880>init: job2 state changed from post-start to running Aug 23 10:01:36 10 <1219485695,115608>init: Handling started event Aug 23 10:02:53 10 <1219485773,443920>init: job2 main process (2163) killed by TERM signal Aug 23 10:02:53 10 <1219485773,445212>init: job2 goal changed from start to stop Aug 23 10:02:53 10 <1219485773,446308>init: job2 state changed from running to stopping Aug 23 10:02:54 10 <1219485773,448668>init: Handling stopping event Aug 23 10:02:54 10 <1219485773,450336>init: job2 state changed from stopping to killed Aug 23 10:02:54 10 <1219485773,450948>init: job2 state changed from killed to post-stop Aug 23 10:02:55 10 <1219485773,451548>init: job2 state changed from post-stop to waiting Aug 23 10:02:55 10 <1219485773,454384>init: Handling stopped event . My understanding on "respawn limit 4 500" is as follows. if the process is restarted more than 4 times within 500 seconds, the process should be stopped automatically. This however does not happen. Is this a bug? If i use respawn without the limit option, the process gets respawned. Thanks, Sandeep

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