I have successfully used capistrano to deploy my rails app to Ubuntu EC2. Everything works great on deploy. Rails app name is deseov12 My issue is that Puma does not start on boot which will be nec...

Summary How can I combine multiple checks in Monit? I want to check against process activity and file content/timestamp. Long and boring explanation I'm working on a Monit daemon for keeping m...

I am using upstart to create a daemon for a spawned nginx python fastcgi script. If I use the below it works: sudo start myserver What does not work is: sudo stop myserver stop: Unknown instanc...

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 ru...

I am using upstart script to do start kafka and zookeeper. My steps are: (1)The following is kafka-zk.conf (Put it in /etc/init/): kill timeout 300 start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [06] ...

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 normall...

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 reins...

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...

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: un...

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" ...

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: Connec...

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 ...

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...

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 /et...

I have an upstart script (say, /etc/init/dtest.conf) start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [!2345] respawn script DID=$(docker.io run -d ubuntu /bin/bash -c "echo Starting;sleep 20;echo Stopp...

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 $HOME is...

Situation I have a daemon I wrote in PHP (not the best language for this, but work with me), and it is made to receive jobs from a queue and process them whenever a job needs to be done. For each n...

Using puma on a rails app; it sometimes dies without any articular reason; also often dies (does not restart after being stopped) when deployed What would be a good way to monitor if the process d...

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 resta...

I am trying to configure uWSGI with Upstart. I created the file /etc/init/uwsgi-flask.conf: description "uwsgi for flask" start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [06] exec /appdir/virtualenvdir...

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...

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 shutdown respaw...

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 hard nofile 50000 ro...

I have a Gradle app that I startup using ./gradlew run. This works fine, but I'm trying to deploy to an AWS instance (Ubuntu 12) and I would like the script to execute on boot. I tried writing a st...

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....