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+# Copyright (c) 2014 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+description     "Metrics collection daemon"
+author          "chromium-os-dev@chromium.org"
+
+# The metrics daemon is responsible for receiving and forwarding to
+# chrome UMA statistics not produced by chrome.
+start on starting system-services
+stop on stopping system-services
+respawn
+
+expect fork
+exec metrics_daemon