strong-service-upstart

Generate an Upstart job using the provided parameters.

Install

npm install strong-service-upstart

Basic Usage

var fs = require('fs');
var upstart = require('strong-service-upstart');
 
// Generate Upstart job for my-app
upstart({name: 'my-app'}, function(err, job) {
  fs.writeFile('/etc/init/my-app.conf', job, function(err) {
    if (err) console.error(err);
  });
});
 
// Also supports synchronous mode
fs.writeFileSync('/etc/init/my-app.conf', upstart({name: 'my-app'}));

Options

This module supports a subset of those used in the node-linux templates:

• name - name of service. In comments in v1.4 and syslog tagging in v0.6. name is an alias for label and servicesummary.
• description - multi-word description of service. description is an alias for servicedescription.
• author - sets author field of Upstart job (defaults to current user)
• cwd - working directory to run service from (defaults to /)
• user - user to run service as (defaults to nodbody)
• group - group to run service as (Upstart v1.4 only, defaults to nogroup)
• execpath - path to binary to executable
• script - arguments to execpath (such as a script)
• created - timestamp used in generated job (defaults to current time)
• env - environment variables to set in Upstart job
• version - Upstart version to target: 0.6, 1.4(default)
• template - override internal template

Upstart Versions

Upstart v1.4 added support for setuid and setgid, so the default template requires Upstart v1.4.

A job file compatible with older versions of Upstart can be generated by specifying version: '0.6' in the options (or by providing your own template).

Template Format

Templates use _.template from Lodash using EJS style syntax: <%= option %>.