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megas
Asked: 2013-12-11 15:16:47 +0800 CST

Can't start upstart

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I want to run upstart job. I've created upstart file and put it to /etc/init folder

#/etc/init/myjob.conf

description "test job"

start on runlevel [2345]

exec /home/megas/test.sh

and then created script in home directory

#/home/megas/test.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo "test job, reporting..."

Then I'm trying to run

sudo start myjob

but got message

start: Job failed to start

What I'm doing wrong? How to create upstart job?

upstart

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I did some testing on lubuntu 12.04 and the problem is due to wrong permission of test.sh, so try:

     $ chmod +x /home/megas/test.sh

    When you start the job:

     $ sudo start myjob
 myjob stop/waiting

    This is normal behavior for task job and echo output is stored in: 

    /var/log/upstart/myjob.log

    According to upstart manual:

    When a Task Job starts, its goal will be start and once the task in question has completed, Upstart will change its goal to stop.

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