Python service using Upstart on Ubuntu
- by Soumya Simanta
I want to create to deploy a heartbeat service (a python script) as a service using Upstart.
My understanding is that I've to add a /etc/init/myheartbeatservice.conf with the following contents.
# my heartbeat service
description "Heartbeat monitor"
start on startup
stop on shutdown
script
exec /path/to/my/python/script.py
end script
My script starts another service process and the monitors the processes and sends heartbeat to an outside server regularly. Are startup and shutdown the correct events ?
Also my script create a new thread. I'm assuming I also need to add fork daemon to my conf file?
Thanks.
