Demo node upstart definition

demo.conf

bob_gneu@badassmofo.google.com:~$ cat /etc/init/demo.conf
#!upstart
description "Node Demo"
author      "bob@gneu.org"

env PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

respawn

start on startup
stop on shutdown

script
    export HOME="/home/bob_gneu"

    echo $$ > /var/run/demo.pid
    exec node /var/opt/demo/bin/www >> /var/log/demo.sys.log 2>&1
end script

pre-start script
    # Date format same as (new Date()).toISOString() for consistency
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting" >> /var/log/demo.sys.log
end script

pre-stop script
    rm /var/run/demo.pid
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Stopping" >> /var/log/demo.sys.log
end script

With this in place you can run it with sudo start demo