Questions tagged [upstart]
Upstart is an event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon used to perform tasks when the computer is started.
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A better way to restart/reload Gunicorn (via Upstart) after 'git pull'ing my Django projects
Im looking for something better than sudo restart projectname every time I issue a git pull origin master, which pulls down my latest changes to a Django project. This restart command, I believe, is ...
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Is there benefit to using Monit instead of a basic Upstart setup?
I'm configuring my server to run node.js as a daemon. I've setup Upstart to handle startup and shutdown of node, which works wonderfully. The next step is to make sure that node.js is restarted if it ...
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How to configure Jenkins to run on port 80
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and have run sudo apt-get install jenkins to install Jenkins on this system.
I've seen some tutorials on how to setup a reverse proxy (Apache, Nginx, etc), however this is a ...
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Daemon vs Upstart for python script
I have written a module in Python and want it to run continuously once started and need to stop it when I need to update other modules. I will likely be using monit to restart it, if module has ...
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how to automatically restart a node server?
We are finishing development of a project, the client is already using it but occasionally some errors occur - crashing the server.
I know I could register a service as 'upstart' script on linux, in ...
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Ubuntu, upstart, and creating a pid for monitoring
Below is a upstart script for redis. How to I create a pid so I use monit for monitoring?
#!upstart
description "Redis Server"
env USER=redis
start on startup
stop on shutdown
respawn
exec sudo -...
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why can't upstart run 'source bin/activate'?
upstart won't activate my virtualenv for some reason.
This is how I run it
script
# My startup script, plain old shell scripting here.
cd path/to/env
source bin/activate
....
end ...
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upstart logging output enabled
Except doing explicit logging instructions like suggested in http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Debugging, is there a way to enable output of what is happening with upstart?
What event is raised
What ...
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How to set a global nofile limit to avoid "many open files" error?
I have a websocket service. it's strage that have error:"too many open files", but i have set the system configure:
/etc/security/limits.conf
* soft nofile 65000
* ...
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Restarting Upstart instance processes
I am running multiple instances of a worker as described in this answer: Starting multiple upstart instances automatically
Question: Can I restart all instances at once?
To start my workers I can do:...
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DOCKER_OPTS do not work in config file /etc/default/docker
I have changed /etc/default/docker with DOCKER_OPTS="-H tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock" (docker version 1.4.1 in ubuntu 14.04), but it do not take any effect for me (not listening ...
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Starting multiple upstart instances automatically
We use PHP gearman workers to run various tasks in parallel. Everything works just fine, and I have silly little shell script to spin them up when I want them. Being a programmer (and therefore lazy)...
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Upstart env stanza not setting environment variables (like NODE_ENV) for Node.js application
I have an Upstart script for my server that looks like this:
description "myapp node.js server"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on shutdown
env NODE_ENV=production
env CUSTOM=somevalue
exec sudo -u ...
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What is the difference between Upstart and Supervisord? [closed]
Are Upstart and Supervisord interchangeable? Do they work together? I am looking to run a python program as root when my system (debian) boots. After the boot, I would like the process manager to ...
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MongoDB - Permission denied for socket: /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock
I had an unclean shutdown of MongoDB on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Now when I login as root and run Mongodb via service mongodb start, I get below error-
Mon Dec 12 13:53:15 [initandlisten] ERROR: listen(): ...
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How to use foreman to export to upstart?
I am trying to export my application to another process management format/system (specifically, upstart). In doing so, I have come across a number of roadblocks, mostly due to lacking documentation.
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Can upstart expect/respawn be used on processes that fork more than twice?
I am using upstart to start/stop/automatically restart daemons. One of the daemons forks 4 times. The upstart cookbook states that it only supports forking twice. Is there a workaround?
How it fails
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Setting memory consumption limits with Upstart
I've recently become quite fond of Upstart. Previously I've been using God, Monit and Bluepill but I don't really like these solutions so I'm giving Upstart a try.
I've been using the Foreman gem to ...
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How to write an Ubuntu Upstart job for Celery (django-celery) in a virtualenv
I really enjoy using upstart. I currently have upstart jobs to run different gunicorn instances in a number of virtualenvs. However, the 2-3 examples I found for Celery upstart scripts on the ...
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Upstart node.js working directory
Starting Node.js with Upstart, when trying to access files within Node.js it cannot access them without using the full path. I need it to use the working directory.
start on startup
stop on shutdown
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UpStart initctl start|restart ubuntu
When using upstart on ubuntu how do I issue a command for starting a job if not running and restarting if already running. When deploying an app to a new node the job is not defined.
initctl restart ...
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Node.js upstart vs forever
I am looking to daemonize my Node.js application. What's the difference between upstart and forever? Also, are there other packages I might want to considering looking at?
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Increase max open files for Ubuntu/Upstart (initctl)
This is on an Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS server.
I've added the following to /etc/security/limits.conf (my Golang processes run as root):
* hard nofile 50000
* soft nofile 50000
root ...
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Need help running Python app as service in Ubuntu with Upstart
I have written a logging application in Python that is meant to start at boot, but I've been unable to start the app with Ubuntu's Upstart init daemon. When run from the terminal with sudo /usr/local/...
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ubuntu: start (upstart) second instance of mongodb
the standard upstart script that comes with mongodb works fine:
# Ubuntu upstart file at /etc/init/mongodb.conf
limit nofile 20000 20000
kill timeout 300 # wait 300s between SIGTERM and SIGKILL.
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Upstart: Job failed to start
EDIT
status marybaked yields
marybaked stop/waiting
Here is the output of /var/log/syslog :
May 3 16:24:39 marybakedpdx kernel: [ 3464.189563] init: Failed to spawn marybakedpdx main process: ...
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initctl too old upstart check
I am trying to do a syntax check on an upstart script using init-checkconf. However when I run it, it returns ERROR: version of /sbin/initctl too old.
I have no idea what to do, I have tried ...
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How can I get an upstart script to properly manage running a docker image?
I have a local docker-registry that I'd like to manage with upstart.
I have the following script (in /etc/init/docker-registry.conf):
description "docker registry"
author "me"
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Upstart script for node.js app
I'm having trouble starting an Upstart script.
Here's the script (app.conf in /etc/init/)
description "node.js server"
author "kvz"
start on startup
stop on shutdown
script
# We found $...
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What's the proper way to run some Python code asynchronously?
I needed to send mail from my plain Flask app, so I thought the simplest way would be to send it using smtplib. But I had to do it asynchronously - you can't just insert a 3 second delay into the ...
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Running bash script in upstart .conf script
I would like run my bash script (kvm_manage) in startup, and it doesnt work. Here is my upstart .conf script:
description "kvm start skript"
start on local-filesystem
stop on ...
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How to set environment variable in pre-start in Upstart script?
We have a custom C++ daemon application that forks once. So we've been doing this in our Upstart script on Ubuntu 12.04 and it works perfectly:
expect fork
exec /path/to/the/app
However now we need ...
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uwsgi upstart on amazon linux
I created a uwsgi file following this tutorial https://uwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Upstart.html on amazon linux. Though It doesn't seem to run as Nginx just says bad gateway. If I run the
/etc/...
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Gunicorn and Django with Upstart and Nginx
First of all I have many Django instances setup and running like this.
In each project I have a script.sh shell script that starts gunicorn etc.:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
LOGFILE=/var/log/gunicorn/...
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Run python script as daemon at boot time (Ubuntu)
I've created small web server using werkzeug and I'm able to run it in usual python way with python my_server.py. Pages load, everything works fine. Now I want to start it when my pc boots. What's the ...
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Can upstart's "service start" be used inside a cron job?
TLDR; Is it possible to create a cron job that runs service
service_name start? How?
Content of my
sudo crontab -e
is:
45 23 * * * service bormarise_celery_daemon start
This runs normally on ...
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Running services (upstart/init.d) in a container
I'm trying to launch a system in docker that has many init and upstart services and I get this error.
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart:
Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: ...
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Using Upstart to manage Unicorn w/ rbenv + bundler binstubs w/ ruby-local-exec shebang
Alright, this is melting my brain. It might have something to do with the fact that I don't understand Upstart as well as I should. Sorry in advance for the long question.
I'm trying to use Upstart ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the upstart script or forever script in a context of running node.js scripts ??
I am a node.js developer. I use Amazon ec2 to deploy my node.js apps.
I want to have my node.js service running permanently - restarted if it fails for any reason.
I came across 2 tools . Forever ...
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Upstart task hangs after it finishes successfully
I've got an Upstart task that starts multiple instances of a service based on Starting multiple upstart instances automatically and Restarting Upstart instance processes. It's working and it starts ...
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How to keep node app running?
I've finally finished converting one of my projects to use Node.JS, but now I'm having problems keeping my app running on the server :/ The problem is that if I close my putty session Node just stops.
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Upstart calling script (for inserted USB-drive)
I know that Ubuntu (and Fedora) uses Upstart istead of the classical System V init daemon (SysVinit).
I would like to know how to detect when a USB-drive has been inserted, mount it and copy some ...
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Upstart stop if running
I have a Jenkins job to stop a node application, deploy code, and start the application.
The start/stop is done with an Upstart script.
I use initctl stop node-App
If the job is running, this works ...
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How to limit the number of instances UpStart can simultaneously start or respawn
I have a UpStart service job that has many (~100) instance that need to be started. Each of them is a resource-heavy process that does a lot of disk reading/writing during startup. When all of them ...
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Timestamps in upstart logs
I'm using upstart on Ubuntu to manage services. It writes to /var/log/upstart/<service>.log. Errors in this file don't have timestamps, which makes it difficult to diagnose problems.
Is ...
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Ubuntu docker container with upstart and syslog
After searching around, I'm still confused whether you can have a docker container running Ubuntu with a working init system (upstart) and syslog, or not.
I know docker containers are meant for ...
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Upstart / init script not working
I'm trying to create a service / script to automatically start and controll my nodejs server, but it doesnt seem to work at all.
First of all, I used this source as main reference http://kvz.io/blog/...
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start-stop-daemon error (Exec format error)
This command is part of an upstart script, which used to work in ubuntu 12.04, 10.04.
sudo start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/mk_order_handler.pid --chuid ubuntu --exec /...
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Upstart init is leaking memory, how do you debug it?
I've got a memory leak in Upstart init process (pid 1), what options I have on debugging it?
EDIT: Suggest me some real tools for this, manually putting printfs or calculating memory allocations by ...
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running node.js server using upstart causes 'terminated with status 127' on 'ubuntu 10.04'
i have written an upstart script for ubuntu to launch my node.js server manually or on startup. But it always terminates with status 127 and i can't find more information about what is going wrong. If ...
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