Clipboard.com Upstart script for Node

clipboard-app.conf

#!upstart
description "clipboard.com app server"
author      "Ken Perkins & Mark Dawson (c) 2011"

env NAME=clipboard-app
env APP=clipboard-app.js
env LOGFILE=/home/clipboard/clipboard-app.log
env ERRORFILE=/home/clipboard/clipboard-app-error.log
env HOME="/home/clipboard/node/apps"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]
kill timeout 30
respawn

script
    export NODE_ENV=production
    export HOSTNAME=`hostname`
    export NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node:/home/clipboard/node"
    
    timeA=`date +%s`
    echo "$NAME started at $timeA" >> $LOGFILE
    exec sudo -u clipboard /usr/local/bin/node $HOME/$APP 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRORFILE
    
end script

post-stop script
    timeA=`date +%s`
    echo "$NAME stopped at $timeA" >> $LOGFILE
end script