Mongodb upstart script

[Steffen Barszus]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:56:09 +0100
Tom <tommedema at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Evan and sorry for misspelling your name earlier.
> 
> For those who face similar problems I will share my experiences. I
> played around with this today, scanned most of the cookbook, and came
> to the conclusion that Ubuntu does not yet provide version 1.4 with
> the normal package distributions.


Ubuntu Precise supports it. 

> As such, I had to use start-stop-daemon. This is my configuration
> file:


>         exec start-stop-daemon --start -c mainuser --exec
> /home/mainuser/apps/mongodb/bin/mongod -- --journal --nohttpinterface
> --dbpath /home/mainuser/data/db --logpath
> /home/mainuser/data/logs/mongodb.log --logappend --port 30000
> 
> It seems to work. I do not know why I do not need to add expect fork
> or expect daemon, but with those it does not work. Without it does
> work

From what i read without knowing the daemon, i would guess that mongod
without --fork, doesnt fork and stays in foreground, which is the
easiest way to handle it in upstart. start-stop-daemon handles the
setuid/setgid transparent then.