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Created October 3, 2013 17:05
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Upstart script for elasticsearch on ubuntu.... that actually works. Install the deb, and then run `sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch remove -f` to disable the init script.
# ElasticSearch upstart script
description "ElasticSearch service"
start on (net-device-up
and local-filesystems
and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [016]
respawn
respawn limit 10 30
# NB: Upstart scripts do not respect
# /etc/security/limits.conf, so the open-file limits
# settings need to be applied here.
limit nofile 32000 32000
setuid elasticsearch
setgid elasticsearch
exec /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -f -Des.default.config=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml -Des.default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch/ -Des.default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch/ -Des.default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch/ -Des.default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch -Des.default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch
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maslenkov commented Jun 26, 2017

Can this gist be updated?

ERROR: Parameter [-f]does not start with --

if remove -f then:

es.default.config is no longer supported. elasticsearch.yml must be placed in the config directory and cannot be renamed.

And any ideas how can I debug starting process? Because it doesn't work for me with initctl even if works for me with shell...

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