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jimutt
jimutt

Reputation: 667

Run python script as upstart service with specific python version

I'm working on setting up an upstart service for a python script on my centOs server. Though the script needs python 2.7 to be working. But the default python version on the server is 2.6 and I do not want to change it as I'm afraid other scripts will fail then.

I have installed python 2.7 and tested it and it works perfectly fine with my script. Though I am wondering of how I should write the .conf file to make the file execute with python 2.7. Because right now I get a "Job failed to start" message. And I beleive it might be because it's using 2.6 when executing the script.

This is my current conf file (with changed directory and file names though):

description "MY SCRIPT DESCRIPTION"
author "MY NAME"

start on runlevel [234]
stop on runlevel [0156]

chdir /home/aUser/scriptLocation
exec /home/aUser/scriptLocation/theScript.py
respawn

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1215

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

You can just call the Python executable directly and pass the script as a parameter, rather than calling the script itself.

exec /path/to/my/python2.6 /home/aUser/scriptLocation/theScript.py

Upvotes: 3

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