I'm a newbie on upstart, I didn't send the link just to make you busy :P I did a fast read of the document and I think I came across a section where they describe your exact problem and how you should define the upstart. I can't help you more than this :)
-- Diogo Resende On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 13:40 , HG wrote: > Hi! > > No, I hadn't - never stumbled across it as I'm running redhat. Looks good but > very extensive. If you know what I'm doing wrong, can you point it out? From > that cookbook I tried to do it like said on the Changing User section, but > the start-stop-daemon seems to be missing from redhat - I got error saying > that it's not found. So I'm stuck with the su solution, but it just isn't > working. So, this (what I have below) doesn't work: > > exec su --session-command="/usr/local/bin/node > /home/nodeuser/dev/NodeApp/NodeApp-4.js" >> /var/log/NodeApp.log 2>&1 > nodeuser & > > And I cannot figure out why. It starts the node app, but the pid gets screwed > up. I tried to change it to following form from the cookbook: > > exec su -c "/usr/local/bin/node /home/nodeuser/dev/NodeApp/NodeApp-4.js >> > /hugo/nodeuser/dev/NodeApp/NodeApp.log 2>&1" nodeuser > > But that doesn't even start. So, I'm kind of stuck. I would really appreciate > if you could point out my error. Thanks. > > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Diogo Resende <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Have you read this? > > > > http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/ > > > > It's very good.. > > > > -- > > Diogo Resende > > > > > > On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 12:26 , HG wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to deploy to Redhat 6.1 > > > using upstart. If I do it as root, it works, but I cannot get it done as > > > a user. It always tries to start multiple instances of the node process > > > when I run this /etc/init/NodeApp.conf script: > > > > > > #!upstart > > > description "node.js HTTP-server" > > > author "me" > > > > > > # One example said that it's safer to start after mounts > > > #start on startup > > > start on started mountall > > > stop on shutdown > > > > > > # respawn > > > respawn > > > # If the process is respawed more than 3 times within an interval of 10 > > > seconds the process will be stopped and not restarted > > > respawn limit 3 10 > > > > > > script > > > export NODE_ENV="production" > > > > > > # Somebody wrote: Not sure why $HOME is needed, but we found that it is: > > > export HOME="/home/nodeuser/" > > > > > > echo $$ > /var/run/NodeApp.pid > > > # sudo doesn't work on redhat > > > # exec sudo -u nodeuser /usr/local/bin/node > > > /home/nodeuser/dev/NodeApp-4.js >> /var/log/NodeApp.log 2>&1 > > > exec su --session-command="/usr/local/bin/node > > > /home/nodeuser/dev/NodeApp/NodeApp-4.js" >> /var/log/NodeApp.log 2>&1 > > > nodeuser & > > > > > > ### Why does this run spawnlimit+1 times at the startup ?!? > > > > > > # root works: > > > #echo $$ > /var/run/NodeApp.pid > > > #export HOME="/root" > > > #exec /usr/local/bin/node /home/nodeuser/dev/NodeApp/NodeApp-4.js >> > > > /var/log/NodeApp.log 2>&1 > > > end script > > > > > > pre-start script > > > # Date format same as (new Date()).toISOString() for consistency > > > echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting" >> > > > /var/log/NodeApp.log > > > end script > > > > > > pre-stop script > > > rm /var/run/NodeApp.pid > > > echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Stopping" >> > > > /var/log/NodeApp.log > > > end script > > > > > > > > > The problem is that when I issue: sudo start NodeApp this starts the > > > process 4 times (spawnlimit+1). First one of those, will get the http > > > port and the rest will fail as the port is already taken. And as the > > > result of that, the NodeApp,pid file has the las PID which failed and the > > > first one that is running is not recorded. If I run this as root > > > (commented out), this works as expected. What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > -- > > > HG. > > > > > > -- > > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > > Posting guidelines: > > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > (mailto:[email protected]) (mailto:[email protected]) > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > (mailto:nodejs%[email protected]) > > > (mailto:[email protected] > > > (mailto:nodejs%[email protected])) > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:nodejs%[email protected]) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > -- > HG. > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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