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Upstart is an event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon used to perform tasks when the computer is started.

Upstart is an event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon used to perform tasks when the computer is started. Be sure to check out the cook book found at : http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/

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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 related to Upstart, which I use to start/top my…
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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 dies. A few of the guides have suggested using…
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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 VM dedicated for just jenkins and I'd like keep it…
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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 crashed or is otherwise not running. I was going…
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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 order to have my node service restart when it…
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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 -u $USER sh -c "/usr/local/bin/redis-server…
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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 service changed its status…
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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 * hard nofile …
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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 script the virtualenv runs fine when started…
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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: initctl start my-workers Which then allows me…
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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), I wanted to see if I could spin these up via…
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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 at port 2375). It seems that docker do not read…
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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 nodejs /usr/local/bin/node /opt/myapp/app.js >>…
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What is the difference between Upstart and Supervisord?

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 continue running the program if it crashes. Which…
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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(): bind() failed errno:13 Permission denied for…
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