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Soumya Simanta
Soumya Simanta

Reputation: 11741

Running a Python service on ubuntu using upstart

I want to create to deploy a heartbeat service (a python script) as a service using Upstart.

My understanding is that I've to add a /etc/init/myheartbeatservice.conf with the following contents. 

# my heartbeat service 

description     "Heartbeat monitor"

start on startup
stop on shutdown

script
    exec /path/to/my/python/script.py
end script

My script starts another service process and the monitors the processes and sends heartbeat to an outside server regularly. Are startup and shutdown the correct events ? Also my script create a new thread. I'm assuming I also need to add fork daemon to my conf file?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1820

Answers (1)

Thomas Bratt
Thomas Bratt

Reputation: 51804

Upstart only sets a handful of environment variables. Does your application need any of these set?

See this answer to a similar question: Need help running Python app as service in Ubuntu with Upstart

Upvotes: 1

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