Hubot Upstart Script

hubot.conf

# hubot

description "Hubot Campfire bot"
author "David Wittman <david@wittman.com>"

start on filesystem or runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

# Path to Hubot installation
env HUBOT_DIR='/opt/hubot/'
env HUBOT='bin/hubot'
env ADAPTER='campfire'
# Name (and local user) to run Hubot as
env HUBOT_USER='hubot'
# httpd listen port
env PORT='5555'

# Campfire-specific environment variables
env HUBOT_CAMPFIRE_TOKEN=''
env HUBOT_CAMPFIRE_ACCOUNT=''
env HUBOT_CAMPFIRE_ROOMS=''

# Keep the process alive, limit to 5 restarts in 60s
respawn
respawn limit 5 60

exec start-stop-daemon --start --chuid ${HUBOT_USER} --chdir ${HUBOT_DIR} \
  --exec ${HUBOT_DIR}${HUBOT} -- --name ${HUBOT_USER} --adapter ${ADAPTER}

This is a great, very helpful script. My only issue was that I was confused by the port as this limits it to listening only to 5555 when (what I think) the default is 8080. This created an issue with the hubot refusing all of my curl scripts and I had no idea why. Not sure if 5555 is a specific port others use or as an arbitrary number for a placeholder. Perhaps add a comment or change it to 8080 in the script?

Thanks for sharing this, it helps tremendously.

It can be any port, it's just used by hubot so it doesnt interfere with real webserver.

Shouldn't it be --startas instead of --exec?