About a half year ago, when i upgraded my Ubuntu installation from "Dapper Drake" to "Edgy Eft",
i wrote a small job for upstart to spawn svscanboot, since inittab was no longer used.
Up to today, it looked like this:
# svscanboot start on runlevel-2 start on runlevel-3 start on runlevel-4 start on runlevel-5 stop on shutdown respawn /command/svscanboot
But it seems, something has changed in upstart since that time.
initctl list didn't show me any svscanboot job at all.
Here is the updated version of /etc/event.d/svscanboot:
# svscanboot
#
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6
respawn
exec /command/svscanboot
