[systemd-devel] Fedora 16 and upstart

Mirco Tischler mt-ml at gmx.de
Thu May 2 08:22:11 PDT 2013


2013/5/2 Chinmay Mahata <chinmay_mahata at rediffmail.com>

> Hi All,
>     Sorry for asking such a noob question.
>
> I am migrating my system from fedora 13 (fc13) to fedora 16 64-bit (fc16
> x86_64) version. In fc13 all our module service scripts are written for
> upstart/initctl. In fc16, there is no upstart/initctl support any more, but
> there is systemd as the init system.
>
> Hi

You do realise that F16 is EOL and won't receive any updates (not only
systemd, but in general)? I'd strongly recommend using F18 instead.

So my queries are:
>
> 1. Is there any way I can reuse my upstart initctl scripts in fc16 x86_64?
> 2. What are items/things I need to do in fc16 so that I can reuse the old
> initctl scripts?
>
> Please help me out by sending me your solutions/suggestions.
>
> Upstart scripts aren't supported. You need to rewrite them as systemd unit
files. If you're lucky, that isn't too much work though ;-)

> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> --Chinmay
>
> Mirco
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