Possibly the ampersand at the end of the exec line?  

On Monday, March 19, 2012 7:26:51 AM UTC-5, 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.
>
>

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