elasticsearch upstart script for official deb packages (tested with 0.90.2)

etc-init-elasticsearch.conf

# ElasticSearch Service
description     "ElasticSearch"

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

stop on runlevel [016]

respawn

respawn limit 10 5

# 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

env ES_HOME=/usr/share/elasticsearch
env ES_MIN_MEM=2g
env ES_MAX_MEM=2g
env ES_HEAP_SIZE=2g
env DAEMON="${ES_HOME}/bin/elasticsearch"
env DATA_DIR=/var/lib/elasticsearch
env CONFIG_DIR=/etc/elasticsearch
env LOG_DIR=/var/log/elasticsearch
env WORK_DIR="$ES_HOME"

console output

script
  if [ -f /etc/default/elasticsearch ]; then
    . /etc/default/elasticsearch
  fi

  su -s /bin/dash -c "$DAEMON -f -Des.path.conf=$CONFIG_DIR -Des.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.path.logs=$LOG_DIR -Des.path.data=$DATA_DIR -Des.path.work=$WORK_DIR" elasticsearch
end script