newrelic upstart

newrelic.conf script

# The current user of the plugin (and subfolders) is root, so I've written this upstart script: 
# 
# Rackspace NewRelic plugin 
# This script keeps this service running.

start on runlevel [2345] 
stop on runlevel [016]

pre-start script 
echo '{"name": "check_respawn", "output": "newrelic_rs_dfw service respawned", "status": 2, "handlers": ["twitter"], "subscribers": "aws"}' | nc localhost 3030 
end script

respawn

exec sudo -u root 'bundle exec /path_to_plugin/newrelic/newrelic_rs_dfw/bin/newrelic_rs' 

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(Don't mind the pre-start script, it's my way to send alerts to my sensu server)

And /var/log/messages tells me:

Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test goal changed from stop to start 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from waiting to starting 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from starting to pre-start 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test pre-start process(26378) 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test pre-start process(26378) exited normally 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from pre-start to spawned 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test main process (26381) 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from spawned to post-start 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from post-start to running 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test main process (26381) terminated with status 1 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test main process ended, respawning 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from running to stopping 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from stopping to killed 
Feb 7 18:33:52 ip-172-30-1-9 init: newrelic_rs_dfw_test state changed from killed to post-stop

And respawns ten times and then dies..