Upstart script for elasticsearch on ubuntu.... that actually works. Install the deb, and then run `sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch remove -f` to disable the init script.

elasticsearch.conf

# ElasticSearch upstart script

description     "ElasticSearch service"

start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems
          and runlevel [2345])

stop on runlevel [016]

respawn

respawn limit 10 30

# NB: Upstart scripts do not respect
# /etc/security/limits.conf, so the open-file limits
# settings need to be applied here.
limit nofile 32000 32000

setuid elasticsearch
setgid elasticsearch
exec /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -f -Des.default.config=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml -Des.default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch/ -Des.default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch/ -Des.default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch/ -Des.default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch -Des.default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch

Thanks for sharing! FYI, invalid option "-f"

on ubuntu 14.04, the call to update-rc.d should be sudo update-rc.d -f elasticsearch remove

Its mind boggling that elastic.co hasn't done something like this yet. Just tried this gist on 2.2.1, but it wasn't working, so i replaced the last line with this:
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -d --default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch/ --default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch/ --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch --default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch --default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch

Note @nickjbauer you absolutely do not want the -d there; if you have that there you can't stop the process.

Can this gist be updated?

ERROR: Parameter [-f]does not start with --

if remove -f then:

es.default.config is no longer supported. elasticsearch.yml must be placed in the config directory and cannot be renamed.

And any ideas how can I debug starting process? Because it doesn't work for me with initctl even if works for me with shell...