upstart job for elastic search

elasticsearch.conf

# ElasticSearch Service

description     "ElasticSearch"

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

stop on runlevel [016]

respawn limit 10 5

env ES_HOME=/usr/share/elasticsearch/home
env ES_MIN_MEM=256m
env ES_MAX_MEM=2g
env DAEMON="${ES_HOME}/bin/elasticsearch"
env DATA_DIR=/data/elasticsearch/data
env CONFIG_DIR=/etc/elasticsearch

console output

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

  su -s /bin/dash -c "/usr/bin/elasticsearch -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

Hah, this saved me a bunch of work :)

The original version had a few typos in it, the new version fixes

• Issues with the config path not working.
• No longer need a pid file (it is running in the foreground)
• Removed variables that do not seem to have an impact

Why did you get rid of the PID file?

Since the process is running in the foreground, you don't really need a PID file. Upstart takes care of all of the process management for starting and stopping the daemon.

Thanks! Headsup even though $DAEMON is set, it's not used (/usr/bin/elasticsearch hardcoded)