Scripts to start automatically start hubot on startup on debian

.hubotrc

#!/bin/bash
export PORT=5555 # setting port for hubot scripts, only needed if port 8080 is not ok with you
export BIND_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 # So that hubot is not public under port but can be proxied through e.g. nginx
export HUBOT_HIPCHAT_JID="YOUR_ID_HERE@chat.hipchat.com" # set HipChatid
export HUBOT_HIPCHAT_PASSWORD="YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE" # setting password for HipChat
export GITLAB_CHANNEL="CHANNEL@conf.hipchat.com" # channel to which to send the GITLAB messages

README

First file place under: /etc/init.d/hubot
Second file place under: /home/hubot/.hubotrc
Don't forget to execute
update-rc.d hubot defaults

hubot

#!/bin/sh

# This assumes you have:
# 1) A user called `hubot` in charge of the bot.
# 2) A file called /home/hubot/.hubotrc that contains the Hubot credentials.
#
# To set the adapter either edit bin/hubot to specify what you want or append
# `-- -a campfire` to the $DAEMON variable below.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hubot
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the hubot service
# Description:       starts the Hubot bot for the HipChat rooms
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/home/hubot/node_modules/hubot/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME="Hubot"
LOGFILE="/var/log/hubot.log"
PIDFILE="/var/run/hubot.pid"
HOME="/home/hubot"
DAEMON="$HOME/node_modules/hubot/bin/hubot -- --adapter hipchat"

set -e


start(){
  echo -n "Starting $NAME: "
  . /home/hubot/.hubotrc
  echo "Trying to start Hubot" > $LOGFILE
  start-stop-daemon -S -p $PIDFILE -c hubot:hubot -m -b -d $HOME -x $DAEMON >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 
  #                 ^Start pidfile     chuid make-pid background changedir execute
  echo "Success"
}

stop(){
  echo -n "Stopping $NAME: "
  start-stop-daemon -K -p $PIDFILE >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
  echo "Success"
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
  ;;

  restart)
    stop
    start
    ;;

  *)
    N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
    echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
exit