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What is the current state of Ubuntu's transition from init scripts to Upstart? [migrated]

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http://serverfault.com – What is the current state of Ubuntu's transition from init.d scripts to upstart? I was curious, so I compared the contents of /etc/init.d/ to /etc/init/ on one of our development machines, which is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server. # /etc/init.d/ # /etc/init/ acpid acpid.conf apache2 --------------------------- apparmor --------------------------- apport apport.conf atd atd.conf bind9 --------------------------- bootlogd ------- (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 10/29/2012

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