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user1894919
user1894919

Reputation: 168

Foreman export upstart scripts as userjob on ubuntu 12.04

I am trying to export upstart scripts from my rails application using foreman but I don't want to use sudo to do that. I saw that the Ubuntu 12.04 that I am using supports userjob http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#user-job so I have enabled that. It was enabled successfully with a test script that I have placed at ~/.init so I tried bundle exec foreman export upstart ~/.init -a myapp -l log -u myuser and it exported all my foreman tasks to ~/.init. Now when I run start myapp it works however my thin instances simply doesn't start and I can't figure out why. Maybe it has something to do with using a RVM user install. Is there a way to debug this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 722

Answers (1)

bjjb
bjjb

Reputation: 481

You can set

console log

in your upstart script, and the output should be shown in a log-fie.

According to the recen upstart cookbook, session job output will appear in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/upstart/<jobname>, (which should fall back to $HOME/.cache).

Alternatively, you can tell it to log elsewhere, with the --logdir option to the upstart command.

Since your question is a few months old, you may already be aware that using $HOME/.init for "user" jobs is deprecated in favour of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/upstart (or $HOME/.config/upstart/). Looks like the latest Foreman doesn't give nice defaults for that, though it's still possible.

As for the reason your script won't start, some things to consider are

  • Are you running as the right user? setuid <user>
  • Does that user have access to bundle in this environment?

I'm not sure about RVM, but I've had some success with chruby. Here's an example (which logs):


description "A Rails application" 
author "Me ([email protected])"

start on runlevel [2345] 
stop on runlevel [016] 

respawn 

setuid appuser 
setgid appuser 

console output 

chdir /var/www/app/current 
exec chruby-exec 2.0 -- bundle exec unicorn_rails -E production -P 5000

Upvotes: 1

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