Mongodb upstart script

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:09:11AM -0400, Evan Huus wrote:
> The cookbook has the answer [1] :)

> TLDR: If you're running upstart 1.4 or later, you can use the 'setuid' and
> 'setgid' stanzas. Otherwise you'll have to use su, sudo or
> start-stop-daemon. Start-stop-daemon is recommended, because su and sudo do
> a bunch of extra stuff to the PAM session that is probably unnecessary for
> a daemon process.

It's not that it's "probably unnecessary", it's that it's actively harmful
to run PAM sessions for most daemons.  You don't want every daemon on your
system to show up as an active session to consolekit.

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