# salt.modules.upstart

Module for the management of upstart systems. The Upstart system only supports service starting, stopping and restarting.

Currently (as of Ubuntu 12.04) there is no tool available to disable Upstart services (like update-rc.d). This[1] is the recommended way to disable an Upstart service. So we assume that all Upstart services that have not been disabled in this manner are enabled.

But this is broken because we do not check to see that the dependent services are enabled. Otherwise we would have to do something like parse the output of "initctl show-config" to determine if all service dependencies are enabled to start on boot. For example, see the "start on" condition for the lightdm service below[2]. And this would be too hard. So we wait until the upstart developers have solved this problem. :) This is to say that an Upstart service that is enabled may not really be enabled.

Also, when an Upstart service is enabled, should the dependent services be enabled too? Probably not. But there should be a notice about this, at least.

[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#disabling-a-job-from-automatically-starting

[2] example upstart configuration file:

    lightdm
    emits login-session-start
    emits desktop-session-start
    emits desktop-shutdown
    start on ((((filesystem and runlevel [!06]) and started dbus) and (drm-device-added card0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1 or stopped udev-fallback-graphics)) or runlevel PREVLEVEL=S)
    stop on runlevel [016]

Warning

This module should not be used on Red Hat systems. For these, the `rh_service` module should be used, as it supports the hybrid upstart/sysvinit system used in RHEL/CentOS 6.

`salt.modules.upstart.` `available`(name)

  Returns `True` if the specified service is available, otherwise returns `False`.

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.available sshd

`salt.modules.upstart.` `disable`(name, **kwargs)

  Disable the named service from starting on boot

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.disable <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `disabled`(name)

  Check to see if the named service is disabled to start on boot

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.disabled <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `enable`(name, **kwargs)

  Enable the named service to start at boot

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.enable <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `enabled`(name)

  Check to see if the named service is enabled to start on boot

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.enabled <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `force_reload`(name)

  Force-reload the named service

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.force_reload <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `full_restart`(name)

  Do a full restart (stop/start) of the named service

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.full_restart <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `get_all`()

  Return all installed services

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.get_all

`salt.modules.upstart.` `get_disabled`()

  Return the disabled services

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.get_disabled

`salt.modules.upstart.` `get_enabled`()

  Return the enabled services

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.get_enabled

`salt.modules.upstart.` `reload_`(name)

  Reload the named service

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.reload <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `restart`(name)

  Restart the named service

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.restart <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `start`(name)

  Start the specified service

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.start <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `status`(name, sig=None)

  Return the status for a service, returns a bool whether the service is running.

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.status <service name>

`salt.modules.upstart.` `stop`(name)

  Stop the specified service

  CLI Example:

      salt '*' service.stop <service name>

Current Salt release: 0.17.1

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