I know I’ve been rather quiet lately. I’ve been busy travelling for a little bit and found myself at a new job. Well, now I’m getting back into the swing of things and wanted to start off with something special.
Gitit
I started using Gitit wiki this week. I love it, it’s awesome, and I encourage others to check it out. I’ll post a full installation guide soon.
For now, the issue I’m running into is that I want to have Gitit automatically start with the server starts. I also want it to respawn in case the process ever dies. Enter: Upstart
I know Ubuntu 15 is implementing systemd, but our servers are still running 14.04 LTS. So, this is relevant to everyone else also on the LTS - or just anyone using upstart :)
Admittedly, I’ve never fully understood init scripts enough to write my own, until now.
Upstart Code
Here is my code for running Gitit with Upstart.
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description "Run Gitit service"
author "Jacob Tirey - boomshadow.net"
start on filesystem or runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
expect daemon
script
echo $$ > /var/run/gitit-init.pid
chdir /path/to/wiki
exec /usr/local/bin/gitit -f gitit.conf &
end script
pre-start script
echo "[`date`] Gitit Starting" >> /var/log/gitit.log
end script
pre-stop script
rm /var/run/gitit-init.pid
echo "[`date`] Gitit Stopping" >> /var/log/gitit.log
end script
Commands
That’s it! Now you can start/stop/restart the service like so:
service gitit start
service gitit stop
service gitit restartIf you restart the server or kill the PID, it’ll auto-restart. You also have logging at:
/var/log/gitit.log
*Note: Be sure to update lines 15 & 16 with your path to the wiki, path to Gitit binary, and your gitit config file.