Delaying jobs in upstart without touching the jobscript in /etc/init

March 2011


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For the impatient
Rationale
Experiment: without job-2
Experiment: with job-2
Interpretation

The following line, when put in an upstart job /etc/init/job-2.conf, will make job-3 wait for job-1:

start on (starting job-3 and started job-1)