Trying to write an upstart script for a newrelic agent

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Mariano González's message of 2014-02-17 06:43:16 -0800:
> Hi guys.
> I'm asking for help to write a script to monitor a newrelic agent.
> Here's what I have now: https://gist.github.com/marianogg9/9002995
> As you may see, the service won't start and will respawn 10 times. I think
> this is an env issue, but I tried with export and env stanzas without
> success.
> Any comments will be really appreciated.
> Thanks!
> 

If you are running it as root, why not have it as a system job from
/etc/init/something.conf ? Then you can drop sudo.

Also you should have logs in ~/.cache/upstart if it is a user job, or
/var/log/upstart if it is a system job. Those should give a clue as to
why your command is failing.