Alex Indigo alexindigo

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

This gist just keeps the data for this article: Async frameworks "Hello World" showdown.

If you prefer VirtualBox or aren't running OS X, here are some instructions and a script to help you get started with SmartOS under VirtualBox. If you use VirtualBox, skip the first section and read the section on how to get the Node.js SmartMachine up and running.

Running SmartOS under vmware Fusion

Start by downloading the latest live image
When you run the new VM wizard, select "Continue without disk" on the first screen of the wizard.
Select Sun Solaris / Solaris 10 64-bit on the next screen.
You're going to get dumped to a config screen when the live image starts up, choose DHCP for the networking and defaults for everything else.
Pretty much the first thing you're going to want to do is figure out how to SSH into the box once it boots and creates its storage pools, because trying to do stuff in the virtual console is miserable. There's no cut and paste

	#! /bin/sh
	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: redis-server
	# Required-Start: $syslog
	# Required-Stop: $syslog
	# Should-Start: $local_fs
	# Should-Stop: $local_fs
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: redis-server - Persistent key-value db

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh

	#!/bin/sh
	# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# SOME INFOS : fairly standard (debian) init script.
	# Note that node doesn't create a PID file (hence --make-pidfile)
	# has to be run in the background (hence --background)
	# and NOT as root (hence --chuid)
	#
	# MORE INFOS : INIT SCRIPT http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit
	# INIT-INFO RULES http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts
	# INSTALL/REMOVE http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28

	Copyright (c) 2011 Thomas Fuchs, http://mir.aculo.us/

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
	a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
	"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
	without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
	distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
	permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
	the following conditions:

	# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
	# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
	# for examples

	# If not running interactively, don't do anything
	[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

	# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
	# don't overwrite GNU Midnight Commander's setting of `ignorespace'.
	export HISTCONTROL=$HISTCONTROL${HISTCONTROL+,}ignoredups

	termcapinfo xterm-256color\|xterm-color\|xterm\|xterms\|xs\|rxvt ti@:te@
	backtick 1 10 10 me
	backtick 2 10 10 ut
	caption string "%?%F%{= Bk}%? %C%A %D %d-%m-%Y %{= kB} %t%= %?%F%{= Bk}%:%{= wk}%? %n "
	hardstatus alwayslastline '%{= kG}[ %{.K}%1` %{g}][%= %{= kK}%?%-Lw%?%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{K}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{.K} %l \| %2` \| %C%a %{g}]'
	startup_message off
	vbell off
	defutf8 on
	bind c screen 1
	bind 0 select 10

	// Implement bash string escaping.
	var safePattern = /^[a-z0-9_\/\-.,?:@#%^+=\[\]]*$/i;
	var safeishPattern = /^[a-z0-9_\/\-.,?:@#%^+=\[\]{}\|&()<>; ']$/i;
	function bashEscape(arg) {
	// These don't need quoting
	if (safePattern.test(arg)) return arg;

	// These are fine wrapped in double quotes using weak escaping.
	if (safeishPattern.test(arg)) return '"' + arg + '"';