Re: /var/run/

Conrad Knauer wrote:

>> > http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
>
> The version that
> will be in Feisty when its released will also replace "cron, atd,
> anacron and inetd". It will be interesting to see what other distros
> eventually adopt upstart; that should be a good indicator of its
> merits.

What's wrong with init? What doesn't it do well? Why do we need to
build a new Leatherman when we already have a perfectly good knife,
pliers, and screwdriver? Have you ever actually tried to use a
Leatherman to do real work?

It seems to me that Upstart is running contrary to the basic philosophy
of Unix:

(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh
rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.
 - Doug McIlroy (/The Bell System Technical Journal)

/Pretty soon we'll have to reboot our Ubuntu boxes after each automatic
update.

:-(

ttyl
srw
Received on Fri Jan 5 11:23:13 2007