Questions tagged [upstart]
Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.
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Setting up mongodb via upstart - how to pass options?
I installed MongoDB in an Ubuntu Server VM inside VMware using these instructions: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/. Everything works fine, and I can access MongoDB ...
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Nginx traffic is going to wrong upsteam when mixing named servers and default servers
I have the below config file for nginx. The problem is all traffic is going to upstream clustera. How do I configure nginx to only send traffic for example.com to clustera and all the rest to clusterb?...
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Restart networking in ubuntu karmic (9.10) using upstart
As far as I know karmic uses upstart to control some of the services.
Is there any way to restart the networking service without rebooting the system?
The problem is that when I try to do it in any ...
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How to change max file limits on a process
Yes I know this question has been asked before and I have tried all the solutions I have seen and none of them work for me. We are running Ubuntu 12, and we have a process that automatically gets ...
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How to configure a newer version of Supervisord to start on system boot in Ubuntu 12.02?
How do you configure a newer version of supervisor to start on system boot in Ubuntu?
Some distributions simply lag behind in their repositories.
When I use easy install (as recommended by default on ...
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Unkillable upstart process
So I wrote a seemingly-basic node.js server upstart script based on a script from this article, and it works fine, starting the server and running on the expected port. The problem comes when I try to ...
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Upstart can't stop foreverjs services on shutdown?
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We use a Vagrant-based virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for development of three Node.JS servers that are started using foreverjs. We run the services under the vagrant user and ...
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RHEL6 Upstart: Flow of Events During Reboot
I have a situation where a RHEL 6.4 server is sending TERM and KILL signals too quickly, before applications and databases have had a chance to gracefully stop. It seems that Upstart is handing ...
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Proper upstart config for meteor?
I'm hoping to find out how to tell upstart that meteor will fork more than twice?
I followed their instructions at http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#how-to-establish-fork-count to count the forks ...
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Why is my nodejs application with forever not starting with Upstart on EC2 instance?
I am trying to start a nodejs application with forever (forever simply restarts the program if it crashes), but forever itself is not auto started on boot. So I am using upstart to initialize forever.
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How to change upstart order, Start network after fstab?
In ubuntu 12.04, I want to change order; I want to mount all from fstab before running network (i have /etc/network/interfaces on other partition). How to do it? This is my fstab:
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Upstart: defining service dependencies / priorities
I am working on an app which runs several services / daemons using upstart. These should start on system startup, but only after the DB server (in our case mongo) was started. I am looking for the ...
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Daemon crashes but upstart thinks it is still alive
I have to following problem: We have an Java application which is started by an bash script.
This application should run as a daemon, so we have an upstart-job to start it.
start on runlevel [2345] ...
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Upstart attempts to start job before mounting everything
~$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/xvda2 /mnt auto defaults,nobootwait,comment=cloudconfig 0 2
/dev/xvda3 none swap sw,comment=cloudconfig ...
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Ubuntu upstart use one script to run multiple others
This script will start the services:
#!upstart
description "example.com"
author "Geert"
script
for service in "website" "feeds" "jobs"
do
exec start service.example.com service=$...
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init.d script worked OK on Ubuntu 10.10 but not on 11.10 despite LBS header correction
On Ubuntu 11.10, if I run /usr/bin/cserver -c /etc/cserver.conf & it'll work fine.
But if I run service cserver start or /etc/init.d/cserver start as I did on 10.10, it won't. It just says "...
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Process being sent SIGINT when started using Upstart
I have a Linux application which opens up several serial devices
(/dev/ttyUSBX) and reads/writes from them. When I run it from a
command prompt (Ubuntu 10.04, bash) it works perfectly.
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mysql upstart job hangs if database directory not mounted
Update: Filed as bug #812423 on Launchpad.
I have mysqld pointed to an external volume:
$ cat /etc/mysql/conf.d/data_joliss.cnf
[mysqld]
datadir=/mnt/data_joliss/mysql
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Considerations for building SysV or Upstart compatible Bash scripts
I've just knocked out a quick script for keeping a slave web server in sync with a master using rsync. (https://github.com/simonjgreen/liveFolderSync/blob/master/liveFolderSync.sh)
I'd like to make ...
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What's the correct way to start a Ubuntu Upstart script from another Upstart script?
I have three Ubuntu Upstart scripts:
browser runs an instance of firefox as an unprivileged user
browsers starts when screen is started and launches
browser PORT=1
browser PORT=2
browser PORT=3
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upstart config to start sync daemon as non-root user
I am planning to use inosync to sync data from master server to several client servers. I have created a user called rsyncuser in both master and slaves with access permissions and passwordless ssh ...
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Restart mysqld with a command line parameter on ubuntu 10.04
Getting my hands dirty with a MySql slave setup, I ran into a puzzling question: how do I pass any of the myriad options to mysqld (--skip-slave-start in this particular case) when I am restarting it ...
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Upstart, node and bash users
I am having some problems understanding all the mechanisms behind the user management with upstart, node and bash.
What I want to do:
I want to have a service, that executes a node script. This ...
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Does upstart wait until a core dump is written before restarting the process?
On our Ubuntu servers, core dumps are currently disabled. If we enable them, and a daemon process crashes, will that impact the time taken for upstart to restart the process?
That is: if my daemon's ...
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running composer from upstart
I am running Ubuntu 14.04.
I am trying to make a service capable of deploying an application. The process is very simple:
I have a node script listening on port 2133 for a POST request
When this ...
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Prevent duplicates when launching ssh-agent in upstart script
As part of an Upstart script, I need to launch ssh-agent to load a GitHub deployment key, so in the script I have:
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa
The problem is that when the ...
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How to have upstart shutdown rsyslog as last job in Ubuntu 14.04
It seems like upstart decides to shutdown rsyslog on Ubuntu 14.04 as one of the first jobs if a machine shuts down. So most logging of shutting down jobs is lost. How to I instruct upstart to shutdown ...
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How to deal with Upstart “terminated with status 1”?
I have a very simple script on Ubuntu 14.04 upstart (/etc/init/myscript.conf)
description "Something"
author "me"
start on filesystem and started networking
stop on shutdown
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auto restart php-fpm on segfault
I want restart php-fpm after segfaults.
I run php-fpm on ubuntu 14.04 trusty.
It uses upstart for checking services.
I try to set automatic restart with respawn options, but after SIGSEGV php-fpm did ...
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Simplest infinite script exec without upstart
I've got a CentOS 5.11 box that I have to work with for now--in a production env where I can't really push it to CentOS 6, at least for awhile. I have to be low-impact on this project, can't mess up ...
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Init script to run overlapping servers at service restart
How can I create a init script that starts (and tracks) the new process before the old is completely terminated at restart?
I am developing a node.js service that needs to be able to restart ...
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Logrotate for node.js app deployed using monit and upstart
I deployed a web application in node.js by following the guide: Deploying Node.js With Upstart and Monit .
The app produces some log via console.log(). In the upstart script, it's redirected to a log ...
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supervisord with Upstart always hangs
I'm trying to start supervisord with Upstart. The Upstart job is very simple and traditional (start on, stop on, author description, respawn, exec).
I've tried running supervisord in the foreground ("...
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Upstart - make "reload" behave like "restart"
I have a daemon process that doesn't respond to SIGHUP sent when running reload.
It runs under an unprivileged user, and I can't restart it without sudo privileges.
Is there a way to make reload to ...
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Writing an upstart file which allows the user to input username and password
I'm trying to write an upstart file for OpenConnect. The task is pretty simple, but I'm stuck because I don't want to provide the username and password in a config file, but prompt the user to provide ...
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Make sure an upstart job is stopped after /etc/init.d/nginx during shutdown
I have an upstart job X that control some web processes. During shutdown, I want to make sure that X is stopped after /etc/init.d/nginx, so that there won't be any 502 returned to the HAProxy instance ...
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Upstart shows non-existent process running
I am using upstart 1.8-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu-1210-quantal-64-minimal.
It shows me nginx to be running, when it's not.
# service nginx status
nginx start/running, process 2543
# ps -p 2543
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Upstart task to wait for iscsi target to become available?
I've got a couple of virtualization servers running Ubuntu 12.04 and Virtualbox and just bought a Synology NAS which I plan to use as an iSCSI target to serve storage for the VMs. I realize that ...
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Does my deploy user need to belong to the sudoer list for Upstart to start GUnicorn?
Does my deploy user need to belong to the sudoer list for Upstart to start GUnicorn?
Here is the error from my Upstart log
deploy is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
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Upstart job to start, stop and restart other jobs
I have around between 3 and 8 upstart jobs in various Ubuntu boxes that I wish to easily start, stop or restart all together. It seems that upstart would make it easy to do that, but I'm not sure how.
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Updating Upstart on Centos 6.3
I have a Centos 6.3 server -- alone among all my Ubuntu servers for historical reasons -- with Upstart 0.6.5. I need to update that upstart to at least 1.4, and I'd prefer to do it through yum instead ...
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Ubuntu Upstart Job to Persist tcp_slot_table_entries Before NFS Mount
NOTE: I'm aware of the question Persistent changes to /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_slot_table_entries and while this older question is quite similar, the selected and proposed answers do not work for us, nor ...
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Understanding Upstart script stanza
I have a script that runs some java process:
/apps/run_my_app.sh:
#!/bin/sh
CLASSPATH=foo
java -cp $CLASSPATH foo.app
can I have an Upstart script stanza like this?
script
/apps/...
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initctl respawn does not reload configuration
My upstart service is running with the respawn option.
I was hoping that if I deploy a new service config, the config will be loaded, when the service respawns.
Neither the initctl reload-...
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Upstart not triggering sysinit
Upon server boot Upstart runs but does not trigger the transition to the normal runlevel, and I would like to know how to fix it. For example syslog will have been started, time set and so on, but ...
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Run python script as a service on Ubuntu 11.10
I am facing the following problem. I want to run a python script as a service on Ubuntu 11.10 system (already mentioned in the following link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4705564/python-...
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How do I limit how much cpu a process can use with upstart (Ubuntu 11.10)
I want to limit the amount of processor power my sheduled jobs (Resque for a Rails application) use and I found this upstart that seems promising and might do what I want:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/...
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How do I perform an action if the upstart respawn limit is hit?
I have an upstart job:
description "foreman"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
respawn
respawn limit 3 60
chdir /home/deploy/app/current
env RAILS_ENV=production
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Is there a way to force pid in upstart script
I am running a uwsgi-python server under ubuntu 10.04. I use upstart to start/stop a uwsgi daemon(daemonize option is set for uwsgi).
Start and stop commands work fine, but when i try to reload my ...
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ubuntu upstart for service with multiple daemons
my service is a group of "multiple" daemons. I need to integrate it with upstart to be started during the bootup. The problem is that I need to restart the service when any of the daemons dies ...
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