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James Hunt (jamesodhunt) wrote : Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reporting this and be reassured that we are investigating this suggestion. Natty should ship with a few new man pages for upstart, including one currently entitled upstart-events. You can see a preview of it here:

  http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/upstart/man/upstart-events.pdf

Caveat: this page is beta and displays poorly via PDF. If you want to view it properly:

  wget http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/upstart/man/upstart-events.7
  tbl upstart-events.7 | nroff -man | less

The table summarizes all "well-known" events and should negate the need to embed references to man pages in .conf files.

Additionally the version of upstart shipping with natty should include basic "visualisation" of jobs such that upstart itself will be able to display the links between events and jobs.