01-08-2011
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Originally Posted by
pludi
As always with those questions: it depends. What skills do you want to learn? What direction do you want to go in your job? Do you want to use the installation for everyday, or for a server? A firewall?
I'm primarily interested in becoming familiar with installing and configuring softwares like svn, mysql, apache, etc. on unix thus creating a development box. Also, I'd like to use the installation for everyday use as opposed to a server that is set and forgotten. Essentially, I want something easy to use and learn with; for example when I started learning linux I started with Ubuntu which was very easy to use and practice with and once I got comfortable I was able to move on to RHL & CentOS, which I now prefer. Also, since this installation is primarily to learning/practicing it will be put on an older machine, so I'd prefer something that isn't going to be a pain to get up and running.
Last edited by NateKin; 01-08-2011 at 04:04 PM..
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started
started(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual started(7)
NAME
started - event signalling that a job is running
SYNOPSIS
started JOB=JOB INSTANCE=INSTANCE [ENV]...
DESCRIPTION
The started event is generated by the Upstart init(8) daemon when an instance of a job has finished starting and is now running. The JOB
environment variable contains the job name, and the INSTANCE environment variable contains the instance name which will be empty for sin-
gle-instance jobs.
init(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other
activity. It is typically combined with the stopping(7) event by services declaring a dependency.
Job configuration files may use the export stanza to export environment variables from their own environment into the started event. See
init(5) for more details.
EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to depend on another service might use:
start on started apache
stop on stopping apache
A task that must be run after another task or service has been started might use:
start on started postgresql
SEE ALSO
starting(7) stopping(7) stopped(7) init(5)
Upstart 2009-07-09 started(7)