[Bio-linux-dev] bio-linux-galaxy or galaxy-server

[William Spooner]

On 9 Jul 2012, at 16:55, Tony Travis wrote:

> On 09/07/12 16:46, William Spooner wrote:
>> Thanks Tim,
>> 
>> I cannot believe how much drift there is in the sysV init system
>> between distros! Anyway, fwiw, here is my attempt at a no-frills
>> startup script for galaxy on Ubuntu;
> 
> Hi, Will.
> 
> Ubuntu has now adopted "upstart" instead of the SysV init system!
> 
> Not all startup scripts have been migrated, but the ones that have are actually symlinks:
> 
>  /etc/init.d/name -> /lib/init/upstart-job
> 
> Which reads the relevant name.conf in:
> 
>  /etc/init/name.conf
> 
> HTH,
> 
>  Tony.

Thanks Tony,

The first example name.conf I looked at was ufw, which simply calls '/lib/ufw/ufw-init start'. So you probably could use the same galaxy-init for both Deb and Ubuntu, you'd just need to call them differently. Oh what merry japes!

Will