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    Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from
the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto
the box and here's how I did it and some things to look
out for.
To install:
sudo apt-get install redis-server

That will create a redis user and install the init.d
script for it. Since upstart is now the replacement for
using init.d, I figure I should convert it to run using
upstart.
To disable the default init.d script for redis:
sudo update-rc.d redis-server disable

Then create /etc/init/redis-server.conf with the following
script:
description "redis server"

start on runlevel [23]
stop on shutdown
expect daemon
respawn

exec sudo -u redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf

What this is is the script for upstart to know what command to run
to start the process. The last line also tells upstart to keep trying
to respawn if it dies.
One thing I had to change in /etc/redis/redis.conf is to change
daemonize yes to daemonize no. What happens if you don't change it
is that redis-server will fork and daemonize itself, and the parent process
goes away. When this happens, upstart thinks that the process has died/stopped
and you won't have control over the process from within upstart.
Now you can use the folowing commands to control your redis-server:
sudo start redis-server
sudo restart redis-server
sudo stop redis-server

Hope this was helpful!