How to check in script if upstart event was emited?

Question

I am running remote connection on session start using xdg autostart script. But sometimes network interface needs more time to start. So I need to check if network is up.

Is it possible to check if an upstart event was emited (I.e. net-device-up)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Short version: No.

Long version: Upstart events themselves are not recorded (unless --verbose or --debug used as init parameter and you grep dmesg). What you can do is check if a job whose start on stanza is net-device-up has been started (or make one for yourself for this purpose only).

Alternatively you can check ifconfig output in your remote connection script for a properly configured eth0 (whatever if you're using).