inittab vs. /etc/sysconfig/init for runlevel 3/5

[David Mansfield]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 13:24 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:45 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:57:08PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:53:31PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:56:40 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I'm open to better ideas, though - should we ship a trimmed inittab
> > > > > that contains *only* the initdefault line? Should we introduce a new
> > > > > configuration flag somewhere else? Does it really matter in the long
> > > > > run?
> > > > 
> > > > At the very least leave an inittab file that contains a note that it
> > > > is not used anymore. Much better than having to find out the new
> > > > structure on your own.
> > > 
> > > Yes, it should have a comment pointing to /etc/sysconfig/init. And on a
> > > related note where can you configure the starting of mingetty/agettty
> > > processes for serial consoles / text consoles,

> # Documentation on Upstart event handlers can be found here:
> # http://upstart.ubuntu.com/getting-started.html 
> # http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Stanzas
> 

I'd personally prefer to have some man pages to read, rather than (or in
addition to) external URLs.  Is there a man page which documents upstart
in general? (man upstart?).  And do these man pages include the
information you just put into /etc/inittab?  It would be ironic if the
most useful documentation on upstart could be found in /etc/inittab. 

David