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Comment 10 for bug 557177

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 557177] Re: mounted-tmp.conf erased complete server

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:39 +0000, Thomas Krause wrote:

> sudo initctl reload network-interface
>
> gives me the message
>
> initctl: Unknown parameter: INTERFACE
>
> Obviously the "network-interface" job is able to detect unset parameters
> instead of destroying everything.
>
Yeah, I was just thinking about this over a cup of tea. instance jobs
already have mandatory parameters, since they're required to determine
which instance it is.

It makes sense to extend this to tasks as well, which require
environment from their events. Even /etc/init/rc.conf technically
requires RUNLEVEL be set.

If we handle this at the Upstart-level, it makes more sense. So
something like:

  # start mounted-tmp
  start: Missing argument: MOUNTPOINT

Then you're more likely to do:

  # start mounted-tmp MOUNTPOINT=/tmp

Scott
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