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procenv 0.26 released

Version 0.26 of the procenv utility is now available. Changes: Check to determine if running on a console now works for FreeBSD/kFreeBSD too. Added ability to show all arguments ( -A / --arguments ) (useful when using --exec ). Added ability to display network details ( -N / --network ). Added BSD/Hurd-specific signals. Corrected output sort order. Mount details now include block, inode and fsck details. There are now 29 categories of environment information displayed when procenv is run (on Linux). Grab it from: https://launchpad.net/procenv/ This update should appear in Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD soon...

Upstart 1.10 released

Lots of goodness in this release (explanatory posts to follow): upstart-local-bridge : New bridge for starting jobs on local socket connections. upstart-dconf-bridge : New bridge for Session Inits to react to dconf/gsettings changes. upstart-dbus-bridge : New ' --bus-name ' option to allow bus name variable to be included in dbus-event(7) . New " reload signal " stanza to allow jobs to specify a custom signal that will be sent to the main process (rather than the default SIGHUP ). Inclusion of Session Init sample jobs. Re-exec fixes for handling chroot sessions. Shutdown fix for Session Inits. New python3 module and accompanying integration test suite for testing Upstart running as PID 1 and as a Session Init (privileged and non-privileged). The Upstart cookbook has been updated for this release.

Upstart Cookbook now updated for Upstart in Debian

I've started a long-overdue update to the Upstart Cookbook for Upstart on Debian. Look out for the Debian swirl! :-) http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook

procenv 0.25 now builds on Android

Procenv 0.25 now builds natively under Android: https://launchpad.net/procenv/ It also fixes an interesting issue that was causing it to fail to generate FreeBSD build logs. However, that is now fixed so you can see the FreeBSD build environment now too by looking at the port logs: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-8-latest-logs/procenv-0.25.log http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-9-latest-logs/procenv-0.25.log   More logs to come - the FreeBSD ports seem to build rather slowly...)

Counting down to Ubuntu and Debian releases with distro-info

A while back I though, "wouldn't it be great if the Ubuntu release schedule could be accessed as some form of web service?" That would allow all sorts of fun scripts to be written. Yes, you could write code to parse the wiki page, but I think the technical term for that is "gross". However, there is now a much simpler alternative in the form of distro-info . If you've never used this awesome tool written by Benjamin Drung you've been missing out! It can tell you all sorts of interesting information. A few examples... Examples of how to use distro-info What is the current development release on the system I am running on? $ distro-info --devel saucy What is the current Debian development release? $ debian-distro-info --devel sid What are the currently supported Ubuntu releases? $ ubuntu-distro-info --supported lucid precise quantal raring saucy What's the latest Ubuntu LTS release? $ ubuntu-distro-info --lts precise What's the c

I'm going to DebConf13

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Vorlon and I will be giving a talk on Upstart ( 'Upstart in Debian' ). So if you'd like to learn more about the awesome next-gen event-based init system, please drop by!