Upstart for elasticsearch

elasticsearch.conf

# ElasticSearch Service

description     "ElasticSearch"

start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems
          and runlevel [2345])

stop on runlevel [016]

respawn limit 10 5

env ES_HOME=/usr/share/elasticsearch
env JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
env LOG_DIR=/var/log/elasticsearch
env DATA_DIR=/var/lib/elasticsearch
env WORK_DIR=/tmp/elasticsearch
env CONFIG_DIR=/etc/elasticsearch
env DEFAULT_CONFIG=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

env DAEMON=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch

console output

script
  if [ -f /etc/default/elasticsearch ]; then
    . /etc/default/elasticsearch
  fi

  su -s /bin/dash -c "$DAEMON -f -Des.default.config=$DEFAULT_CONFIG -Des.path.conf=$CONFIG_DIR -Des.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.path.logs=$LOG_DIR -Des.path.data=$DATA_DIR -Des.path.work=$WORK_DIR" elasticsearch
end script