Quoting Jiri Denemark (jdenemar(a)redhat.com):
exec stanza instead of script ... no script. Unfortunately, with
exec
stanza environment variables can only be set within upstart script
(i.e., configuration in /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd can't work). Hence, we
need to use script stanza, source sysconfig, and execute libvirtd
without --daemon. For similar reasons we can't use limit stanza and need
to handle DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT in job's script.
Why can't you do that stuff in a pre-start script?
thanks,
-serge