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Node app that will drop its own privileges, does not fork or daemonize itself, Upstart 1.3
#!upstart
description "Node app that will drop its own privileges, does not fork or daemonize itself, Upstart 1.3"
author "Ankur Oberoi"
# this script will be reading files from the local filesystem and
# and needs a network interface other than the loopback
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
# stops when the machine is shut down
stop on shutdown
# automatically respawn the job if it exits
respawn
# respawn the job up to 99 times within a 5 second period
respawn limit 99 5
# probably want to sent up a bunch of defaults for environment variables
exec /usr/local/bin/node
# pids? stdin, stdout, stderr?
script
export HOME="/home/user/"
exec sudo -u user /usr/local/bin/node /home/user/app.js 2>&1 >> /home/user/app.log
end script
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