Sync Gateway Upstart Script This should be placed in /etc/init/sync-gateway.conf. You should set: - RUNAS to the username the gateway should be run as, - PATH_TO_GATEWAY to the path to the gateway binary (output of ./build.sh if you build from source), - PATH_TO_JSON to the path of the config JSON file, - LOGSDIR to the path of the logs director…

sync-gateway.conf

description "Sync Gateway"
version "0.1.0"
author "Nicolas Lapomarda"

# Upstart has nothing in $PATH by default
env PATH=/home/db/sync_gateway/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

env PATH_TO_GATEWAY=/home/db/sync_gateway/bin/sync_gateway
env PATH_TO_JSON=/home/db/sync_gateway.json
env LOGSDIR=/home/db/logs

env PIDFILE=/var/run/sync-gateway.pid
env RUNAS=db

# Keep the server running on crash or machine reboot
start on started mountall
stop on shutdown
respawn

pre-start script
  mkdir -p $LOGS
  chown -R $RUNAS:$RUNAS $LOGS
end script

# Start the Sync Gateway and redirect output streams to log files
script
  # Keep a pid around
  echo $$ > $PIDFILE

  exec su -c “$PATH_TO_GATEWAY $PATH_TO_JSON >> $LOGS/sync_access.log 2>> $LOGS/sync_error.log" $RUNAS
end script

# Remove pid file when we stop the server
pre-stop script
  rm $PIDFILE
end script